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- Archival Studies, Archives, Communication Of Memory In Archives, Libraries And Museums, History of Archives, Renaissance Studies, Chancery Studies, and 39 moreAdministrative History, Charters and Paleography, Manuscripts & Material Culture, Early Modern History, Medieval History, Institutional history, Medieval Crown of Aragon, Spanish History, Italian Studies, Medieval Italy, Early Modern Italy, Medieval Sicily, Renaissance Florence, The Kingdom of Naples, Archivística, Storia medievale, Storia moderna, Mediterranean Studies, Digital Archives, Library and Archival Science, Archival science, Recordkeeping and Archives, Archive, Archivistica y Gestion Documental, Archiving, Archivistica, Archivistique, Archivistics, Storia del Regno di Napoli, Napoli Aragonese, Regnum Siciliae, Storia Della Sicilia, Venezia E Terraferma Veneta (XV-XVIII), Venezia, Ducato di Milano, Firenze, Storia Di Firenze, Renaissance Ferrara, and Papacy (Medieval Church History)edit
- A comparative history of archives in late medieval and early modern Italy AR.C.H.I.ves is a four-year project fund... moreA comparative history of archives in late medieval and early modern Italy
AR.C.H.I.ves is a four-year project funded by the European Research Council and led by Dr Filippo de Vivo in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology in the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy for the period 2012-2016.
The project team studies the history of the archives and of the chanceries that oversaw their production, storage and organization in late medieval and early modern Italy. The project proposes to break new ground, by:
firstly, adopting a comparative approach through the in-depth analysis of seven case studies – Milan, Venice, Modena, Florence, Rome, Naples, and Palermo;
secondly, by contextualising the study of archives away from institutional history in a wider social and cultural context, by focusing on six themes: the politics, organization and material culture of archives, the social characteristics of chancery staff, the social impact of chancery activity and the use of archives by pre-modern historians.
The six themes will be analysed in successive phases. In each phase, a team of three researchers collects sources from the case studies on the basis of broadly similar research questions. Two PhD students work, respectively, on the material culture of documents and on the archival work of pre-modern historians. We plan a series of events, including workshops and seminars as well as a final conference. The project will lead to the completion of two PhD theses, specialised articles, a volume of essays and a monograph, as well as the publication of a major collection of sources, some of which will be made available online as we get on: please check back here for more!edit
Una selezione di oltre 300 documenti relativi a sette antichi stati italiani, dal 1271 alla fine del Settecento. I documenti sono divisi in sei grandi capitoli tematici: Archivi e potere, Organizzazione e ordinamento, Aspetti materiali,... more
Una selezione di oltre 300 documenti relativi a sette antichi stati italiani, dal 1271 alla fine del Settecento. I documenti sono divisi in sei grandi capitoli tematici: Archivi e potere, Organizzazione e ordinamento, Aspetti materiali, Il personale, Archivi e società, Dalla consultazione alla storia. Il volume e ciascuno dei capitoli sono preceduti da ampie introduzioni, e ognuno dei documenti è accompagnato da indicazioni bibliografiche essenziali. Il volume è gratuitamente scaricabile dal sito della Direzione Generale Archivi, collana Fonti http://151.12.58.123/dgagaeta/pdf.php?file=Fonti/5815a7df0acdd.pdf
Research Interests: Archival Studies, Architecture, Italian Studies, Digital Media, Administrative History, and 33 moreArchival science, Spanish History, Mediterranean Studies, History of Florence, History of Archives, Early Modern Italy, Medieval Italy, Medieval Sicily, Recordkeeping and Archives, Medieval Crown of Aragon, Charters and Paleography, Notarial Practice, Institutional history, Republic of Venice, Storia medievale, Renaissance Ferrara, Storia Della Sicilia, The Kingdom of Naples, Venezia, History of Milan, Renaissance Florence, Storia moderna, Ducato di Milano, Archivistique, Archivistica y Gestion Documental, Storia del Regno di Napoli, Library and Archival Science, History of Notaries, Napoli Aragonese, Ferrara Estense, Byzantine Diplomatics (Imperial and Patriarchal Chancellery), History of Serenissima Repubblica Di Venezia, and Ducato di Modena
Reviews: R. Chilà, Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 76/2 (2021), 407-409 D. Abulafia, Speculum, 96/1 (2021), 256-258. K. Toomaspoeg, Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, 100 (2020), 713-715. F.... more
Reviews:
R. Chilà, Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 76/2 (2021), 407-409
D. Abulafia, Speculum, 96/1 (2021), 256-258.
K. Toomaspoeg, Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, 100 (2020), 713-715.
F. Titone, English Historical Review, CXXXV, no. 574 (2020), 671-673.
M. Toniazzi, Medioevo latino, XL (2019), 865.
Le carte e la storia, 1 (2019), 123.
E. Tello Hernández, Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 49/2 (2019), 877-878.
F. Delle Donne, Studi Medievali, 60/2 (2019), 1027-1030.
N. Bazzano, Renaissance Quarterly, 72/4 (2019), 1487-1489.
P. Buffo, L’indice dei libri del mese, Anno XXXV, 11 (2018), 28.
Sinossi:
L’Europa tardomedievale è contrassegnata dalla presenza di unioni politiche particolarmente complesse, che includevano diversi stati e territori. Come si manifestava l’esercizio dell’autorità da parte dei governanti? Secondo quali logiche? Tramite quali strumenti?
Grazie alla straordinaria documentazione archivistica superstite, il regno di Sicilia del secolo XV costituisce un modello ideale per studiare questo tipo di problematiche e per verificare quali meccanismi – amministrativi, finanziari e informativi – furono approntati dai re aragonesi e dagli ufficiali al loro servizio per regolarne il governo a distanza e per indirizzarne l’utilizzo delle risorse.
Nonostante la perdita dell’indipendenza politica e il suo definitivo assorbimento tra i territori della Corona d’Aragona, l’isola mantenne però un impianto istituzionale autonomo, che divenne terreno di scontro e negoziazione con i sovrani, ma nel contesto di una complessiva adesione della società siciliana alla politica estera di Alfonso il Magnanimo.
R. Chilà, Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 76/2 (2021), 407-409
D. Abulafia, Speculum, 96/1 (2021), 256-258.
K. Toomaspoeg, Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, 100 (2020), 713-715.
F. Titone, English Historical Review, CXXXV, no. 574 (2020), 671-673.
M. Toniazzi, Medioevo latino, XL (2019), 865.
Le carte e la storia, 1 (2019), 123.
E. Tello Hernández, Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 49/2 (2019), 877-878.
F. Delle Donne, Studi Medievali, 60/2 (2019), 1027-1030.
N. Bazzano, Renaissance Quarterly, 72/4 (2019), 1487-1489.
P. Buffo, L’indice dei libri del mese, Anno XXXV, 11 (2018), 28.
Sinossi:
L’Europa tardomedievale è contrassegnata dalla presenza di unioni politiche particolarmente complesse, che includevano diversi stati e territori. Come si manifestava l’esercizio dell’autorità da parte dei governanti? Secondo quali logiche? Tramite quali strumenti?
Grazie alla straordinaria documentazione archivistica superstite, il regno di Sicilia del secolo XV costituisce un modello ideale per studiare questo tipo di problematiche e per verificare quali meccanismi – amministrativi, finanziari e informativi – furono approntati dai re aragonesi e dagli ufficiali al loro servizio per regolarne il governo a distanza e per indirizzarne l’utilizzo delle risorse.
Nonostante la perdita dell’indipendenza politica e il suo definitivo assorbimento tra i territori della Corona d’Aragona, l’isola mantenne però un impianto istituzionale autonomo, che divenne terreno di scontro e negoziazione con i sovrani, ma nel contesto di una complessiva adesione della società siciliana alla politica estera di Alfonso il Magnanimo.
Research Interests: History, Medieval History, Renaissance Studies, Accounting History, War Studies, and 18 moreAdministrative History, Financial History (History), History of Archives, Medieval Sicily, Sicily (History), Medieval Crown of Aragon, Storia medievale, Late Medieval History, Sicily, Financial History, Storia Della Sicilia, Storia, History of the Crown of Aragon, Archival history, Chancery Studies, Sicilia, Sicilian History and Culture, and Historia De La Corona De Aragón
La raccolta di saggi proposta intende provare a rispondere ad una serie di quesiti incentrati sul rapporto tra archivi e società negli stati italiani tra Medioevo ed Età moderna. Quale era il personale addetto alla produzione e alla cura... more
La raccolta di saggi proposta intende provare a rispondere ad una serie di quesiti incentrati sul rapporto tra archivi e società negli stati italiani tra Medioevo ed Età moderna. Quale era il personale addetto alla produzione e alla cura delle carte? E in quale modo esso era suddiviso al proprio interno? Dai notai dei comuni italiani fino ai più organizzati archivi d’età moderna, diverse categorie di personale specializzato – quali notai, cancellieri, segretari, ma anche archivisti veri e propri, ecc. – hanno contribuito alle diverse fasi della costruzione ed accumulazione degli archivi? Quale ruolo avevano questi ufficiali nella società del tempo? Quale tipo di provenienza sociale? L’impiego in cancelleria garantiva una promozione sociale? E quale educazione ricevevano le diverse categorie di segretari ed archivisti? Da Firenze a Venezia, noti esempi di cancellieri umanisti dimostrano che alcuni di essi spiccavano per le loro qualità intellettuali e letterarie, e non solo strettamente professionali e tecniche. In entrambe queste repubbliche l’organizzazione degli addetti alla cancelleria era regolata da apposite norme interne, e a Venezia lo stato organizzava perfino la loro formazione. Qui una legislazione accurata determinava elementi come la durata dell’ufficio o la suddivisione del lavoro tra i diversi funzionari, ma non mancavano neppure interessi di carattere socio-politico, come ad esempio la parentela o l’appartenenza a certi gruppi di potere. Nelle signorie, al contrario la rilevanza data al ruolo dei segretari, favorì lo sviluppo di relazioni di carattere interpersonale tra principe e segretario stesso, scelto perciò anche per la sua appartenenza al gruppo dei suoi consiglieri più fidati, oltre che per le sue capacità politiche e amministrative.
Su di un piano prettamente sociale si possono comparare queste due realtà? E secondo quali termini? Quali sono, inoltre, le differenze tra il personale delle cancellerie e degli archivi dei regni dell’Italia meridionale, rispetto a quello delle coeve entità istituzionali dell’Italia comunale e delle signorie centro-settentrionali? Si è parlato molto della transizione da un modello nel quale il personale di cancelleria era composto prevalentemente da ufficiali dalla formazione notarile o umanistica, ad un altro caratterizzato piuttosto dalla necessità di trovare funzionari che rispondessero prima di tutto alla richiesta dei governi centrali di avere personale fidato e fedele. L’occasione di questo convegno sarà buona anche per fare il punto su questi temi.
D’altra parte, l’intenzione è quella di usare i documenti stessi per documentare la formazione culturale e gli interessi culturali dei cancellieri: componimenti poetici, piccoli ghirigori sbozzati da segretari annoiati sui margini o sulle carte di guardia dei registri rivelano l’inclinazione culturale e il mondo personale dell’autore.
Su di un piano prettamente sociale si possono comparare queste due realtà? E secondo quali termini? Quali sono, inoltre, le differenze tra il personale delle cancellerie e degli archivi dei regni dell’Italia meridionale, rispetto a quello delle coeve entità istituzionali dell’Italia comunale e delle signorie centro-settentrionali? Si è parlato molto della transizione da un modello nel quale il personale di cancelleria era composto prevalentemente da ufficiali dalla formazione notarile o umanistica, ad un altro caratterizzato piuttosto dalla necessità di trovare funzionari che rispondessero prima di tutto alla richiesta dei governi centrali di avere personale fidato e fedele. L’occasione di questo convegno sarà buona anche per fare il punto su questi temi.
D’altra parte, l’intenzione è quella di usare i documenti stessi per documentare la formazione culturale e gli interessi culturali dei cancellieri: componimenti poetici, piccoli ghirigori sbozzati da segretari annoiati sui margini o sulle carte di guardia dei registri rivelano l’inclinazione culturale e il mondo personale dell’autore.
Research Interests: Modern History, Archival Studies, Medieval History, Italian Studies, Spanish History, and 25 moreArchives, Papacy (Medieval Church History), History of Florence, History of Archives, Early Modern Italy, Medieval Italy, Medieval Sicily, Machiavelli, Niccolò Machiavelli, Ecclesiastical History, Storia medievale, Archives and Records Managment, Renaissance Ferrara, Archivística, Federico da Montefeltro, History of Venice, Papacy (Early Modern and Modern Church History), The Medici Effect, Florence, Renaissance Florence, history of Bologna, History of Genoa, Sicilian History and Culture, Storia moderna, Ducato di Milano, Archivistica y Gestion Documental, and Venezia E Terraferma Veneta (XV-XVIII)
Research Interests: History, Archival Studies, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Italian (European History), and 13 moreModern Italian History, Italian Studies, Historiography, Comparative History, Archives, History of Archives, Medieval Italy, History of Historiography, Recordkeeping and Archives, Storia medievale, Archivística, Chancery Studies, and Storia moderna
Special issue of Storia della Storiografia, 68, 2015, Archives and the Writing of History. Table of contents, foreword, and introduction (nota: two separate files)
Research Interests: History, Archival Studies, Early Modern History, Iberian Studies, Eighteenth Century History, and 8 moreEighteenth-Century French Studies, Venetian History, Early Modern Intellectual History, History of Archives, Early Modern Italy, History of Historiography, Antiquarianism, and Library and Archival Science
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This special issue addresses a double transformation. The first is the historical process that saw a dramatic increase in the production of documents and a substantial improvement in their management and preservation throughout Europe... more
This special issue addresses a double transformation. The first is the historical process that saw a dramatic increase in the production of documents and a substantial improvement in their management and preservation throughout Europe between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries. The early modern period, broadly conceived, is often described as the age of print, but it was also the great time of archives, understood as both the physical repositories and organized offices established by institutions or collectivities to store handwritten documents produced in the course of continuous functions with a view to long-term use. For many European historians, the process of centralization, expansion and (more or less successful) rearrangement of archives is symbolized by the establishment of the great Simancas and Vatican archives in 1540 and 1612 respectively. But, as the articles collected here demonstrate, smaller states also enacted reforms in record-keeping, and these changes were more concerned with archives than with central institutions. The second transformation is interpretive and methodological. Archives have long been at the centre of historians’ research, but over the last ten to fifteen years, an ‘archival turn’ in disciplines ranging from history, literature, anthropology and the social sciences has transformed archives from sites of research into objects of enquiry in their own right. These works study the evolving processes of selection, ordering and usage that produced archives not as neutral repositories of sources but as historically constructed tools of power relations, deeply embedded in changing social and cultural contexts...
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A turning point in European administrative and documentary practices was traditionally associated, most famously by Robert-Henri Bautier, with the monarchies of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. By summarizing previous... more
A turning point in European administrative and documentary practices was traditionally associated, most famously by Robert-Henri Bautier, with the monarchies of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. By summarizing previous research in this field, as well as by using both published and unpublished sources, this article intends to underline an earlier process of transition connected to the development of significant new techniques for the production and preservation of documents in Renaissance Italian city-states. Focusing on the important case of Florence, the administrative uses of records connected to government, diplomacy and military needs will be discussed, and evidence will be provided that such documentary practices had a significant acceleration during the so called Italian Wars (from 1494 onwards). A particular reason of interest of Florence at this time is that a major role in the production and storage of a large quantity of state papers was played by Niccolò Machiavelli, one of the outstanding political thinkers of the age. This was especially true in connection to the new militia which he himself created in 1506. By stressing the role of information management and the importance of correspondence networks in a time of war and crisis, this article also contributes to recent scholarship which has focused on the growth of public records relating to diplomacy in Italy during the second half of the fifteenth century, as well as to a recent field of historiography which has recently gained importance: namely the ‘documentary history of institutions’.
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Agli inizi del secolo XVI, Giovan Luca Barberi, Maestro notaio della Real Cancelleria del Regno di Sicilia, fu protagonista di una lunga e intensa inquisitio, per conto di Ferdinando II d’Aragona, sul patrimonio regio dell’isola e sui... more
Agli inizi del secolo XVI, Giovan Luca Barberi, Maestro notaio della Real Cancelleria del Regno di Sicilia, fu protagonista di una lunga e intensa inquisitio, per conto di Ferdinando II d’Aragona, sul patrimonio regio dell’isola e sui possedimenti della feudalità locale. Questa celebre indagine è stata al centro di alcuni importanti studi che ne hanno messo principalmente in evidenza gli aspetti giurisprudenziali e le conseguenze politiche sull’isola. Tuttavia, se analizzata in una “chiave” amministrativa, l’opera di Barberi (i cosiddetti capibrevi) risulta innanzi tutto come una straordinaria impresa archivistica, frutto di una profonda e complessa indagine tra le scritture e i depositi documentari del Regno, e strettamente connessa al ruolo di Maestro notaio che lo stesso Barberi ebbe all’interno della Cancelleria siciliana. Il presente studio si pone quindi l’obiettivo, da una parte, di descrivere le dinamiche che, tra la fine del Trecento e il secolo successivo, permearono il funzionamento della Real Cancelleria dell’isola e i compiti del suo personale, nonché i sistemi di produzione, registrazione e conservazione delle scritture; dall’altra parte, alla luce di quanto detto in merito al funzionamento della Cancelleria siciliana, si vuole proporre una rielaborazione complessiva dell’interpretazione dell’inquisitio barberiana, illustrando nel dettaglio come il Maestro notaio si sia servito degli archivi del Regno e come abbia portato avanti la propria indagine, ovvero in che modo abbia utilizzato e organizzato le informazioni a sua disposizione per compilare i capibrevi.
Abstract in English
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Giovan Luca Barberi, Magister notarius of the Sicilian Royal chancery, led an intense and long-lasting inquisitio on the royal patrimony of the island and on the possessions of local lords on behalf of King Ferdinand II of Aragon. This well-known inquiry arouse the interest of a number of scholars, who have especially stressed the aspects connected to its importance in the history of law, as well as its political consequences. However, by analysing Barberi’s work (a system of books known as capibrevi) through an administrative perspective, it can now be understood as the result of an “archival enterprise” and, at the same time, strictly connected to the role of Magister notarius that Barberi had in the Sicilian chancery. On the one hand, this study describes the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century dynamics that influenced the functioning of the Regia cancelleria and the tasks of its personnel, as well as to define the methods for producing, recording and preserving documentation. On the other hand, this study promotes a new explanation of Barberi’s inquisitio, illustrating in detail how the Magister notarius worked in royal archives and how carried out his inquiry, in other words, how he retrieved, used and organised information for compiling the capibrevi.
Abstract in English
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, Giovan Luca Barberi, Magister notarius of the Sicilian Royal chancery, led an intense and long-lasting inquisitio on the royal patrimony of the island and on the possessions of local lords on behalf of King Ferdinand II of Aragon. This well-known inquiry arouse the interest of a number of scholars, who have especially stressed the aspects connected to its importance in the history of law, as well as its political consequences. However, by analysing Barberi’s work (a system of books known as capibrevi) through an administrative perspective, it can now be understood as the result of an “archival enterprise” and, at the same time, strictly connected to the role of Magister notarius that Barberi had in the Sicilian chancery. On the one hand, this study describes the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century dynamics that influenced the functioning of the Regia cancelleria and the tasks of its personnel, as well as to define the methods for producing, recording and preserving documentation. On the other hand, this study promotes a new explanation of Barberi’s inquisitio, illustrating in detail how the Magister notarius worked in royal archives and how carried out his inquiry, in other words, how he retrieved, used and organised information for compiling the capibrevi.
Research Interests: Medieval History, Early Modern History, Archives, History of Archives, Medieval Sicily, and 14 moreRecordkeeping and Archives, Medieval Crown of Aragon, Storia medievale, Late Medieval History, Sicily, Storia Della Sicilia, Storia Delle Istituzioni Medievali, Italian History, Archival history, Chancery Studies, Storia moderna, Corona de Aragó, Corona de Aragón, and ´Historia de la Corona de Aragón
In 1412 Sicily lost its independence and became part of the Crown of Aragon. To rule the island, the new monarchs developed a system of long-distance government, through the action of local viceroys. But how did this system work in... more
In 1412 Sicily lost its independence and became part of the Crown of Aragon. To rule the island, the new monarchs developed a system of long-distance government, through the action of local viceroys. But how did this system work in practice? This article engages with the lively historiographical debate about late medieval Sicily and more generally the Aragonese conglomerate by examining the series of libri quictacionum (‘books of quittances’) produced by the financial office, the Conservatoria regii patrimonii. It shows that the management of information – by means of a new genre of documents, an innovative record-keeping system and an apparatus of marginal annotations – became crucial in establishing effective government at a distance and in strengthening royal control over Sicilian institutions and officers. Moreover, these books and the documents they encompass highlight the social dynamics of the island and the emergence of an urban class: the Aragonese promoted the inclusion of the principal members of the latter into central government by granting them offices.
Research Interests: Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Sicily, Sicily (History), Recordkeeping and Archives, and 12 moreMedieval Crown of Aragon, Storia medievale, Late Medieval History, Histoire Médiévale, Sicily, Storia Della Sicilia, Historia Medieval, History of the Crown of Aragon, Chancery Studies, Sicilia, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, and Historia De La Corona De Aragón
From the late medieval period the Crown of Aragon was at the forefront of archival innovation. Culminating in the establishment of the Royal Archive of Barcelona in 1318, this development was not, as is traditionally stated, a mere... more
From the late medieval period the Crown of Aragon was at the forefront of archival innovation. Culminating in the establishment of the Royal Archive of Barcelona in 1318, this development was not, as is traditionally stated, a mere imitation of external models, but the result of an innovative historical process that had its roots in local history and reflected the structure of the Aragonese monarchy. As a result of the later enlargement and decentralisation of the Crown, and especially after the advent of the House of Trastámara in 1414, the Aragonese developed an extensive system for record-keeping across the Mediterranean. By focusing on what I describe as a complex archival network, this article analyses a series of administrative developments, which are generally studied in isolation, as instead interrelated responses to similar needs across disparate and far-flung territories. The results differed within the Iberian dominions (Aragon, Majorca, and Valencia) and in the Italian kingdoms of Sicily and Naples, with Sardinia somewhere in between. For all these differences, however, the establishment of a number of financial archives shows that this network had an especially crucial role in defending the royal patrimony in all the territories under the rule of the Crown of Aragon. The authorities also tried to use archives as tools for exercising pressures over local political elites, as demonstrated, for instance, by the systematic inquiry into feudal possessions and pecuniary rights instigated by King Ferdinand II in early sixteenth-century Sicily. The outcome, however, was totally unexpected.
See the contents of the special issue here: http://ehq.sagepub.com/content/46/3.toc
See the contents of the special issue here: http://ehq.sagepub.com/content/46/3.toc
Research Interests: Archival Studies, Medieval History, Archives, History of Archives, Medieval Sicily, and 15 moreSardinia (Medieval Studies), Recordkeeping and Archives, Medieval Crown of Aragon, Storia medievale, Late Medieval History, Storia Della Sicilia, Historia Medieval, Archivística, History of the Crown of Aragon, Sicilian History and Culture, Histoire Medievale, Archivistica, Storia del Regno di Napoli, Archivo De La Corona De Aragón, and Historia De La Corona De Aragón
Nel 1412, con l'avvento della dinastia di Trastamara sul trono aragonese, la Sicilia perse definitivamente la propria indipendenza e divenne parte della Corona d'Aragona. Le istituzioni siciliane furono quindi riformate e il loro... more
Nel 1412, con l'avvento della dinastia di Trastamara sul trono aragonese, la Sicilia perse definitivamente la propria indipendenza e divenne parte della Corona d'Aragona. Le istituzioni siciliane furono quindi riformate e il loro funzionamento adeguato alle esigenze dei nuovi sovrani, ma l'intervento regio si riverberò anche sui sistemi legati alla conservazione delle scritture pubbliche, sia al centro sia nelle periferie, in considerazione del fatto che l'accesso e la gestione dell'informazione rappresentava uno strumento essenziale per il controllo a distanza dell'isola. I sovrani provvidero quindi alla concentrazione delle magistrature centrali e dei loro archivi a Palermo, presso palazzo Steri ed emanarono una serie di disposizioni che imponevano agli ufficiali il versamento degli archivi – che tal volta erano gestiti alla stregua di una proprietà privata – presso alcuni depositi centrali. Nel contempo, fu sviluppato un sistema pluriarchivistico, sulla base del quale Maestri Notai di ciascuna magistratura erano investiti di funzioni archivistiche e gestivano personalmente i diversi depositi documentari prodotti dagli uffici. Solamente nel caso dell'organo giudiziario della Magna Regia Curia – e in conseguenza della complessa attività di questa magistratura – si mantenne la figura di un vero e proprio archivarius. I Maestri Notai, per lo più esponenti delle élite cittadine dell'isola e in possesso di competenze tecniche derivanti principalmente dalla loro attività in Cancelleria – ma in alcune circostanze anche dall’attività notarile – rappresentavano il vertice ‘tecnico’ delle cancellerie amministrative. Essi erano gli elementi che godevano della maggiore fiducia da parte dei governanti e dei titolari delle magistrature, e proprio per questo erano investiti – ma anche premiati per via degli introiti che ne derivavano – della responsabilità di tenere gli archivi. I Maestri Notai non solo si occupavano materialmente della conservazione delle carte, ma si preoccupavano anche di aggiornare i sistemi di registrazione esistenti, allo scopo di rendere fruibili gli archivi. Nel corso del Quattrocento, l'interesse della Corona per l'amministrazione degli archivi e l'efficente gestione delle scritture da parte degli ufficiali incaricati, permisero quindi lo sviluppo di un sistema archivistico funzionale alle esigenze della monarchia e al governo dell'isola, testimoniato peraltro dalla continuità nell'uso di queste pratiche archivistiche nei secoli successivi e dalle centinaia di registri sopravvissuti per il secolo XV e oggi conservati presso l'Archivio di Stato di Palermo.
Research Interests: Renaissance History, Medieval History, Archives, History of Archives, Medieval Sicily, and 13 moreRecordkeeping and Archives, Medieval Crown of Aragon, Storia medievale, Late Medieval History, Storia Della Sicilia, Historia Medieval, Archivística, History of the Crown of Aragon, Archival history, Chancery Studies, Sicilia, Arquivística, and Archivistica
Recent Italian historiography has shown new interest for archival and chancery history. But new studies have only marginally concerned the production of documents and record-keeping in Naples and Sicily, between the Middle and Early... more
Recent Italian historiography has shown new interest for archival and chancery history. But new studies have only marginally concerned the production of documents and record-keeping in Naples and Sicily, between the Middle and Early Modern Ages, in spite of their undisputed importance. Except for few important articles, over the last fifty years researches have not been able to develop a complete picture concerning the chancery/archival events of the two southern contexts: only the collaboration between archivists and academic scholars, through the exchange of knowledge and skills, can start a new season of studies.
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Early modern diplomatic negotiation was conducted primarily through face-to-face encounters dominated by the oral medium, generally known as audiences. Yet ambassadors were very keen to take written records of the words spoken by... more
Early modern diplomatic negotiation was conducted primarily through face-to-face encounters dominated by the oral medium, generally known as audiences. Yet ambassadors were very keen to take written records of the words spoken by themselves and their counterparts. This article considers the role of oral exchange in diplomatic audiences and the reasons why participants were so interested in recording and filing reports of those exchanges. This article begins with an analysis of diplomatic dispatches, the genre that has attracted most scholarship so far, but then goes on to trace the recording of audiences on the part of hosting sovereigns and their chanceries and secretaries. The article compares three examples: the transcripts of ambassadors’ speeches by fifteenth-century Florentine chancellors, the diaries of papal masters of ceremonies in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and, the most detailed example of audience records, the Esposizioni archive of thousands of ambassadorial speeches, replies and subsequent conversation, assembled by secretaries of the Venetian republic from the mid-sixteenth century onwards. These examples enable us to perceive oral culture in unexpected settings. Moreover, the Venetian case constitutes a typical example of archival transformation: an increase in quantity accompanied by a substantial and conscious improvement in preservation methods and retrieval tools. In order to explain this transformation, this article traces the uses that were intended and made of the records at the time, not just to report on current, but to inform future negotiations.
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Cor status nostri: questa la lapidaria definizione della Cancelleria della Repubblica di Venezia, fornita dal Consiglio dei Dieci nel 1456 e destinata a una lunga fama. Cancelleria, e archivio, ne emergono come come elemento principale... more
Cor status nostri: questa la lapidaria definizione della Cancelleria della Repubblica di Venezia, fornita dal Consiglio dei Dieci nel 1456 e destinata a una lunga fama. Cancelleria, e archivio, ne emergono come come elemento principale dell’azione dello stato, organo vitale e centro materiale del suo potere. A partire dall’analisi del contesto storico preciso in cui fu formulata questa frase, questo saggio propone una visione nuova e più movimentata, ma anche più contrastata della storia dell’archivio governativo veneziano, uno dei ‘luoghi sacri’ della storiografia moderna, nel momento in cui esso era ancora in piena formazione.
Research Interests: Archival Studies, Renaissance History, Early Modern History, Renaissance Studies, Archives, and 10 moreHistory of Archives, Recordkeeping and Archives, Republic of Venice, Late Medieval History, Venice, 16th century Venice, History of Venice, Storia moderna, Venezia E Terraferma Veneta (XV-XVIII), and Medieval History of Venice
In recent years a new historiographical trend has focused on archives as not merely repositories of sources, but as objects of enquiry in their own right. Their evolving organization and management have been studied especially in so far... more
In recent years a new historiographical trend has focused on archives as not merely repositories of sources, but as objects of enquiry in their own right. Their evolving organization and management have been studied especially in so far as they reflect the political presuppositions of the institutions presiding over them. This article welcomes this archival turn and offers an illustration drawn from the famous case study of the Venetian chancery between the fourteenth and the seventeenth century, at a time of substantial developments in the management of archives. However, the article proposes a more inclusive and socially contextualised approach to show that archives were not just tools of power but also sites of economic, social and political conflict. Properly read, the very document at the heart of the institutional view of the Venetian archive as the “heart of the state”, shows that the patrician rulers worried about both the fragility of their archive and the reliability of the notaries in its charge. This perspective helps understanding the exalted late medieval and early modern representation of the archive – a representation that, taken at face value, has continued to inspire histories down to the present day – by throwing light on the practical difficulties of archival practice at the time. The history of archives emerges as a promising field of enquiry precisely in so far as it can shed light both on the history of the state and on the social context in which the state’s actions had to be negotiated.
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We are pleased to announce the programme of the conference on Imperial Archives to be held in Paris, May 23-24. The conference (which is part of an on-going research programme 'Pratiques savantes des archives' funded by Labex Transfers at... more
We are pleased to announce the programme of the conference on Imperial Archives to be held in Paris, May 23-24. The conference (which is part of an on-going research programme 'Pratiques savantes des archives' funded by Labex Transfers at the ENS Paris in collaboration with ARCHives ERC project and Marie Houllemare and Institut Universitaire de France) seeks to explore the history of the archives of early modern empires up to the early 19th century. Contributors will address issues of organisation, nature of holdings, staff and uses of documents in a variety of contexts, questioning the peculiarities of archival management with regard to composite political entities ruling over distant territories and cultures.
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Our next workshop will focus on the materiality of books and records. The following speakers are confirmed to speak: Danae Bafa, UCL; Jessica Berenbeim, Magdalene College, University of Oxford; Carlo Federici, Ca’ Foscari University of... more
Our next workshop will focus on the materiality of books and records.
The following speakers are confirmed to speak: Danae Bafa, UCL; Jessica Berenbeim, Magdalene College, University of Oxford; Carlo Federici, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; Emily Taylor, British Museum; Alfred Hiatt, Queen Mary University of London; Ian Sansom, University of Warwick.
More information and the definitive programme will follow shortly
The following speakers are confirmed to speak: Danae Bafa, UCL; Jessica Berenbeim, Magdalene College, University of Oxford; Carlo Federici, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice; Emily Taylor, British Museum; Alfred Hiatt, Queen Mary University of London; Ian Sansom, University of Warwick.
More information and the definitive programme will follow shortly
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Le but de ce projet est de proposer un retour critique sur l’histoire de l’historiographie en prenant comme angle d’observation les pratiques savantes des archives (archives désigne ici l’ensemble des documents manuscrits et imprimés... more
Le but de ce projet est de proposer un retour critique sur l’histoire de l’historiographie en prenant comme angle d’observation les pratiques savantes des archives (archives désigne ici l’ensemble des documents manuscrits et imprimés rassemblés dans des dépôts d’archives constitués comme tels). S’inscrivant dans la lignée des tendances actuelles des sciences sociales qui mettent en avant les conditions d’élaboration des savoirs, ce projet vise à interroger dans une perspective transnationale l’histoire des archives et l’histoire de l’historiographie dans leurs relations réciproques, ainsi que dans leurs rapports avec les sciences de la Nature, de l’Homme et de l’État.
Depuis quelques années, on assiste sur la scène internationale à l’apparition d’une nouvelle histoire culturelle des archives. Mais si l’histoire des sciences aujourd’hui se préoccupe de comprendre comment les technologies modèlent la connaissance, y compris les «technologies de papier » (paper technologies) — de la liste administrative aux livres de lieux communs, de la fiche de police au dossier médical, jusque précisément aux archives, quelle que soit leur nature -, cette problématique semble encore éloignée de l’histoire, de même que des sciences humaines en général. De fait, les travaux sur l’historiographie et les historiographes de l’époque moderne (jusqu’au XIXe siècle) n’abordent que rarement, ou seulement de manière indirecte, la question de la matérialité du travail érudit. Même en dépassant la fausse dichotomie entre érudition et philosophie, la pratique des spécialistes de l’histoire de l’historiographie témoigne de leur proximité avec l’histoire intellectuelle dans la mesure où ils privilégient des historiens qui construisaient eux-mêmes leur discours à partir de textes conservés dans des bibliothèques plutôt que de sources consignées dans des archives. De la même façon, rares sont les études qui s’interrogent sur les relations entre l’usage des archives et le développement des sciences humaines. Si depuis les années 1980 l’accent est mis sur les significations politiques et symboliques des archives, la question des pratiques savantes que celles-ci génèrent, tant dans leur gestion que dans les modalités d’utilisation des documents, reste un domaine largement inexploré. Le but de ce projet est donc de mettre à l’épreuve l’hypothèse selon laquelle un changement de perspective consistant à mettre en avant les pratiques savantes d’archives serait susceptible de renouveler les approches traditionnelles de l’histoire de l’historiographie et, partant, des sciences humaines : plutôt que de pointer les particularismes, il se propose de mettre en lumière les caractéristiques communes aux historiographies nationales ainsi que les liens entre les différents domaines de connaissance.
Le premier volet de l’enquête se concentrera sur l’histoire et l’historiographie. Un atelier de recherche d’une journée et demie réunissant des chercheurs issus de diverses
disciplines (histoire, archivistique, histoire de l’art, histoire du livre, etc.) sera organisé en mars 2015. Il portera sur les archives comme sources de construction de l’histoire et lieux d’élaboration du discours historique entre les XVIIe et XIXe siècles. Cet atelier aura d’abord pour mission d’explorer les usages des archives pour l’écriture de l’histoire et, inversement, l’utilisation de l’histoire — souvent implicite — pour l’organisation des archives. Il examinera ensuite la question des modalités de transferts de savoir et de savoir-faire entre « histoire générale » et histoire de l’art, de l’église et histoire locale, en interrogeant les effets de la mobilité des hommes (voyages dans différents fonds d’archives), les déplacements des fonds d'archives et la circulation de systèmes de classification entre des domaines contigus (bibliographie, catalogage muséale). Il ouvrira enfin la voie à un repérage des arguments employés tant pour justifier la création d’archives que pour mettre en oeuvre des choix de conservation.
Depuis quelques années, on assiste sur la scène internationale à l’apparition d’une nouvelle histoire culturelle des archives. Mais si l’histoire des sciences aujourd’hui se préoccupe de comprendre comment les technologies modèlent la connaissance, y compris les «technologies de papier » (paper technologies) — de la liste administrative aux livres de lieux communs, de la fiche de police au dossier médical, jusque précisément aux archives, quelle que soit leur nature -, cette problématique semble encore éloignée de l’histoire, de même que des sciences humaines en général. De fait, les travaux sur l’historiographie et les historiographes de l’époque moderne (jusqu’au XIXe siècle) n’abordent que rarement, ou seulement de manière indirecte, la question de la matérialité du travail érudit. Même en dépassant la fausse dichotomie entre érudition et philosophie, la pratique des spécialistes de l’histoire de l’historiographie témoigne de leur proximité avec l’histoire intellectuelle dans la mesure où ils privilégient des historiens qui construisaient eux-mêmes leur discours à partir de textes conservés dans des bibliothèques plutôt que de sources consignées dans des archives. De la même façon, rares sont les études qui s’interrogent sur les relations entre l’usage des archives et le développement des sciences humaines. Si depuis les années 1980 l’accent est mis sur les significations politiques et symboliques des archives, la question des pratiques savantes que celles-ci génèrent, tant dans leur gestion que dans les modalités d’utilisation des documents, reste un domaine largement inexploré. Le but de ce projet est donc de mettre à l’épreuve l’hypothèse selon laquelle un changement de perspective consistant à mettre en avant les pratiques savantes d’archives serait susceptible de renouveler les approches traditionnelles de l’histoire de l’historiographie et, partant, des sciences humaines : plutôt que de pointer les particularismes, il se propose de mettre en lumière les caractéristiques communes aux historiographies nationales ainsi que les liens entre les différents domaines de connaissance.
Le premier volet de l’enquête se concentrera sur l’histoire et l’historiographie. Un atelier de recherche d’une journée et demie réunissant des chercheurs issus de diverses
disciplines (histoire, archivistique, histoire de l’art, histoire du livre, etc.) sera organisé en mars 2015. Il portera sur les archives comme sources de construction de l’histoire et lieux d’élaboration du discours historique entre les XVIIe et XIXe siècles. Cet atelier aura d’abord pour mission d’explorer les usages des archives pour l’écriture de l’histoire et, inversement, l’utilisation de l’histoire — souvent implicite — pour l’organisation des archives. Il examinera ensuite la question des modalités de transferts de savoir et de savoir-faire entre « histoire générale » et histoire de l’art, de l’église et histoire locale, en interrogeant les effets de la mobilité des hommes (voyages dans différents fonds d’archives), les déplacements des fonds d'archives et la circulation de systèmes de classification entre des domaines contigus (bibliographie, catalogage muséale). Il ouvrira enfin la voie à un repérage des arguments employés tant pour justifier la création d’archives que pour mettre en oeuvre des choix de conservation.
Research Interests: European History, Cultural History, Archival Studies, French History, Victorian Studies, and 23 moreEarly Modern History, German History, Modern Italian History, Records Management, Manuscript Studies, Early Modern England, Archives, History of Archives, Early Modern France, Recordkeeping and Archives, Spain (History), Archival Sciences, France, 18th Century France, Modern Germany, Early modern Spain, Venice, Archivística, History of Venice, History of the Crown of Aragon, Chronicles, Archivistica y Gestion Documental, and Venezia E Terraferma Veneta (XV-XVIII)
We are pleased to announce that the full programme of the ARCHIves Conference ‘Archives, Officers and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Italy’ is now available (see below; full abstracts are available at... more
We are pleased to announce that the full programme of the ARCHIves Conference ‘Archives, Officers and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Italy’ is now available (see below; full abstracts are available at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/archives/events/18-19-september-2014-archives-officers-and-society-in-medieval-and-early-modern-italy and on our Academia‘s webpage).
The conference will take place at the conference hall of the Center for American Studies, in the same building of the Istituto Storico Italiano per l’Età Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo Mattei di Giove, via Michelangelo Caetani, 32, Rome (Italy), 18-19 September 2014.
There are no registration fees, but places are limited; if you would like to participate (or for any other question), please write to italianarchives@bbk.ac.uk
The conference will take place at the conference hall of the Center for American Studies, in the same building of the Istituto Storico Italiano per l’Età Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo Mattei di Giove, via Michelangelo Caetani, 32, Rome (Italy), 18-19 September 2014.
There are no registration fees, but places are limited; if you would like to participate (or for any other question), please write to italianarchives@bbk.ac.uk
Research Interests: History, Archival Studies, Medieval History, Italian (European History), Modern Italian History, and 68 moreItalian Studies, Historic Preservation, Administrative History, Spanish History, Archives, Lombardy (Late Middle Ages), Milan (Late Middle Ages), History of Florence, Renaissance History esp Venice, Veneto and empires, Social History, History of Archives, Early Modern Italy, History of Library and Information Science, Sardinia (Medieval Studies), Renaissance Rome, Machiavelli, Recordkeeping and Archives, Spain (History), Notarial Practice, Early modern Spain, Spanish empire, History of libraries, Institutional history, Storia medievale, Archives and Records Managment, Renaissance Ferrara, Late Medieval History, Archivos, Papal Government, Venice and the Veneto, Storia, Sardegna, Papal History, Niccolo Machiavelli, History of Venice, Bologna, Firenze, History of Barcelona, Lucca, Archival history, Padova, history of Bologna, History of Genoa, Spagna, History of Milan, Renaissance Florence, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Storia moderna, Genova, Verona, Renaissance Milan, Ducato di Milano, Archivistica, Ferrara, Terraferma veneta, Archivistica y Gestion Documental, Storia del Regno di Napoli, Archivio Napoli, Venezia E Terraferma Veneta (XV-XVIII), Storia Di Firenze, Renaissance lombardy, Storia Degli Ospedali, History of Verona, MIlan under Visconti and Sforza, Notarial Studies, Early Modern Naples, Ferrara Estense, and Storia Della Assistenza
We are currently organizing a organised by the ARCHIves Project. We will be advertising small 2-day Conference on the theme ‘Archives, Officers and Society in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period (14th-18th century)’,... more
We are currently organizing a organised by the ARCHIves Project. We will be advertising small 2-day Conference on the theme ‘Archives, Officers and Society in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period (14th-18th century)’, 18-19 September 2014, at the Istituto Storico Italiano per l’Età Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo Mattei di Giove, via Michelangelo Caetani, 32, Rome (Italy), grants to cover the travel and accomodation expenses of up to 6 junior researchers on Italian history (PhD students or doctors who have defended their PhD project no more than 2 years ago) wishing to present a paper related to the Conference’s theme. Further information and the programme will follow by March 2014. For any questions don't hesitate to contact us at: italianarchives@bbk.ac.uk
Research Interests: History, Archival Studies, Medieval History, Italian (European History), Modern Italian History, and 55 moreItalian Studies, Historic Preservation, Administrative History, Spanish History, Archives, Lombardy (Late Middle Ages), Milan (Late Middle Ages), History of Florence, Renaissance History esp Venice, Veneto and empires, Social History, History of Archives, Renaissance Rome, Machiavelli, Recordkeeping and Archives, Spain (History), Niccolò Machiavelli, Notarial Practice, Early modern Spain, Spanish empire, History of libraries, Institutional history, Archives and Records Managment, Renaissance Ferrara, Late Medieval History, Archivos, Papal Government, Venice and the Veneto, Papal History, España, Archivística, History of Venice, Bologna, Firenze, Lucca, Padova, Genoa, history of Bologna, History of Genoa, Spagna, History of Milan, Renaissance Florence, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Genova, Renaissance Milan, Ducato di Milano, Archivistica, Terraferma veneta, Storia del Regno di Napoli, Archivio Napoli, Venezia E Terraferma Veneta (XV-XVIII), Storia Di Firenze, Renaissance lombardy, MIlan under Visconti and Sforza, Notarial Studies, and Early Modern Naples
"This interdisciplinary workshop is part of a series organized by the ARCHIves project based at Birkbeck and funded by the European Research Council, devoted to the history of documentary production and archival preservation in late... more
"This interdisciplinary workshop is part of a series organized by the ARCHIves project based at Birkbeck and funded by the European Research Council, devoted to the history of documentary production and archival preservation in late medieval and early modern Italy.
The workshop will consider different genres of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century documents from the point of view of their material form, combining textual, linguistic, diplomatic and palaeographic analysis. How were texts arranged on the page? In which language and in what kind of script were they written? What was the relationship between textual and non-textual symbols? In other words, how does the shape of a document help us understand its meaning and the uses to which it was put? Historians, linguists, diplomatists and palaeographers will give short presentations accompanied by a discussion of documentary examples. Reproductions will be circulated to all participants, and a basic reading ability of Italian manuscripts is expected, but transcripts will be supplied too. The discussion will be held in both English and Italian, and a basic glossary of Italian technical terms will be circulated. The workshop is addressed primarily, but not exclusively, to MPhil and PhD students and Post-Docs working in medieval and early modern Italian history, literature, language and art history.
Places are limited; to participate, please write to italianarchives@bbk.ac.uk. A limited amount of bursaries to cover at least some of the travel expenses is available and will be allocated on the basis of merit by 30 April. If you wish to apply, please do so as soon as possible, describing your research and the reasons of your interest (no more than 300 words).
The workshop will consider different genres of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century documents from the point of view of their material form, combining textual, linguistic, diplomatic and palaeographic analysis. How were texts arranged on the page? In which language and in what kind of script were they written? What was the relationship between textual and non-textual symbols? In other words, how does the shape of a document help us understand its meaning and the uses to which it was put? Historians, linguists, diplomatists and palaeographers will give short presentations accompanied by a discussion of documentary examples. Reproductions will be circulated to all participants, and a basic reading ability of Italian manuscripts is expected, but transcripts will be supplied too. The discussion will be held in both English and Italian, and a basic glossary of Italian technical terms will be circulated. The workshop is addressed primarily, but not exclusively, to MPhil and PhD students and Post-Docs working in medieval and early modern Italian history, literature, language and art history.
Places are limited; to participate, please write to italianarchives@bbk.ac.uk. A limited amount of bursaries to cover at least some of the travel expenses is available and will be allocated on the basis of merit by 30 April. If you wish to apply, please do so as soon as possible, describing your research and the reasons of your interest (no more than 300 words).
Research Interests: Archival Studies, Medieval History, Italian (European History), Medieval Studies, Early Modern England, and 21 moreArchives, Paleography, Latin Paleography, Medieval England, History of Archives, Recordkeeping and Archives, Paleografia, Archives and Records Managment, Late Medieval History, Archivos, The Kingdom of Naples, Archivística, History of Mantova, Antigua,Medieval, Paleografía y Diplomática, Medieval Naples, The Gonzaga of Mantua, Storia del Regno di Napoli, Recordkeeping and Archiving, Paleografia Latina, Renaissance Mantua, and Napoli Aragonese
Research Interests: Archival Studies, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Middle East Studies, Comparative History, and 19 moreTudor England, Swiss History, Early Modern England, Early Modern Europe, Archives, Tudor History, History of Archives, Archival Record Use, 19th Century (History), Early Modern France, Recordkeeping and Archives, Arabic Historiography (History), Napoleonic Europe, Early modern Spain, Spanish Archives, Chancery Studies, Library and Archival Science, History of Savoy's Duchy, and Periodo napoleonico in italia 1800
Research Interests: Early Modern History, Italian (European History), Italian Studies, Renaissance Studies, Secrecy, and 11 moreArchives, History of Archives, Early Modern Italy, Medieval Italy, Machiavelli, Recordkeeping and Archives, Niccolò Machiavelli, Secretary, History and Archives, Chancery Studies, and Secretarial Studies
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Over the past generation, interest in the history of recordkeeping in all periods has exploded, stimulated by the current revolution in digital technologies of making, keeping and using records. European medievalists and early... more
Over the past generation, interest in the history of recordkeeping in all periods has exploded, stimulated by the current revolution in digital technologies of making, keeping and using records. European medievalists and early modernists have been reassessing how records came to be created and preserved, the organization of the resulting accumulations, and the changing uses that contemporaries envisioned for stored records of various kinds through the centuries. Closer examination also raises questions about how European recordkeeping differed from that of other civilizations, and whether European conceptions and terminology about archives need to be provincialized in order to enable more fruitful comparative scholarship. Since scholars across the disciplines continue to rely on today’s archives for their research, reassessing the trajectory of archival formation, organization and survival offers the promise of enriching current research in a wide variety of fields.
Over two weeks, the course will focus on three major themes that currently play a major role in research on the history of archives. The first week will consider practices of creating and organizing archival records, with close attention to the material substrates (paper, parchment), and medial forms and productive practices (calligraphy, registration) that gave rise to large accumulations of material in many European repositories. We will also consider the techniques of organization (spatial, material, textual) by which secretaries, registrators, and other users sought to master the challenge of using records in the exercise of power.
In the second week, we will turn to the ways that archival accumulations became, and still are, sites of activity on the part not only of archival staff, but also of historians and other scholars. We will also consider the variety of archival types that have survived from the Middle Ages to the present, and the challenges of ongoing preservation and transmission in the digital age. Finally, we will turn to the particularities of European archiving in contact with and in comparison to practices in other parts of the early modern world, considering both imperial archives outside Europe and the archivalities of the Islamic tradition. Drawing on the rich collections of handbooks and material at the Herzog August Bibliothek as well as in the Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Wolfenbüttel, the course will give students a richer understanding of the formation of archives, of the meanings that archives had for their contemporaries, and of how they were transformed during their transmission to the modern world.
Mornings will be devoted to presentations and workshops led by senior scholars in the field. Key readings will be circulated in advance. Students will also be invited to present on aspects of their own research as part of the daily seminars. In the afternoons, participants will be able to use the holdings of the Herzog August Bibliothek for their own work and will have opportunities to hold individual or group discussions with those teaching the course. We are also planning a field trip to local archives to gain a richer understanding of the material, organizational and theoretical challenges of reconsidering archival material. There will also be two additional evening lectures by our partners from Marbach and Weimar.
Course tutors:
Dr. Megan Williams (History, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Dr. Diego Navarro Bonilla (Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
Dr. Markus Friedrich (History, University of Hamburg)
Michael Riordan (Archivist of St. John’s College and The Queen’s College, Oxford)
Dr. Maria de Lurdes Rosa, (History, Universidade Nova, Lisbon)
Dr. Natalie Rothman (History, University of Toronto-Scarborough)
The 2017 International Summer School is part of the programme of the MWW Research Association, founded in 2013 (www.mww-forschung.de/en/) and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Applications:
The call for applications is addressed to masters or doctoral students. The seminars will be conducted in English.
The library offers up to fifteen places for participants and will cover their expenses for accommodation and breakfast. Each participant will receive a subsidy of 200 Euros to cover living costs. Travel expenses are reimbursed in accordance to the flat-rate allowances of the DAAD.
There are no application forms. Applicants should state their reasons for wishing to participate in the course and send a c.v. which describes their academic career and their current research. Please also supply the address of an academic referee who may be contacted to supply a reference if needed. The deadline is 28th February 2017.
International participants, who have a concrete interest in the holdings, may informally apply in their cover letter for a week-long archival research visit following the summer school. If approved, the MWW Research Association will cover the additional accommodation expenses in Wolfenbüttel.
Applications should be submitted, preferably by email, to:
forschung@hab.de
Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 13 64, D-38299 Wolfenbüttel, Fax-Nr.: +49 5331- 808 266
Over two weeks, the course will focus on three major themes that currently play a major role in research on the history of archives. The first week will consider practices of creating and organizing archival records, with close attention to the material substrates (paper, parchment), and medial forms and productive practices (calligraphy, registration) that gave rise to large accumulations of material in many European repositories. We will also consider the techniques of organization (spatial, material, textual) by which secretaries, registrators, and other users sought to master the challenge of using records in the exercise of power.
In the second week, we will turn to the ways that archival accumulations became, and still are, sites of activity on the part not only of archival staff, but also of historians and other scholars. We will also consider the variety of archival types that have survived from the Middle Ages to the present, and the challenges of ongoing preservation and transmission in the digital age. Finally, we will turn to the particularities of European archiving in contact with and in comparison to practices in other parts of the early modern world, considering both imperial archives outside Europe and the archivalities of the Islamic tradition. Drawing on the rich collections of handbooks and material at the Herzog August Bibliothek as well as in the Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Wolfenbüttel, the course will give students a richer understanding of the formation of archives, of the meanings that archives had for their contemporaries, and of how they were transformed during their transmission to the modern world.
Mornings will be devoted to presentations and workshops led by senior scholars in the field. Key readings will be circulated in advance. Students will also be invited to present on aspects of their own research as part of the daily seminars. In the afternoons, participants will be able to use the holdings of the Herzog August Bibliothek for their own work and will have opportunities to hold individual or group discussions with those teaching the course. We are also planning a field trip to local archives to gain a richer understanding of the material, organizational and theoretical challenges of reconsidering archival material. There will also be two additional evening lectures by our partners from Marbach and Weimar.
Course tutors:
Dr. Megan Williams (History, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Dr. Diego Navarro Bonilla (Biblioteconomía y Documentación, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
Dr. Markus Friedrich (History, University of Hamburg)
Michael Riordan (Archivist of St. John’s College and The Queen’s College, Oxford)
Dr. Maria de Lurdes Rosa, (History, Universidade Nova, Lisbon)
Dr. Natalie Rothman (History, University of Toronto-Scarborough)
The 2017 International Summer School is part of the programme of the MWW Research Association, founded in 2013 (www.mww-forschung.de/en/) and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Applications:
The call for applications is addressed to masters or doctoral students. The seminars will be conducted in English.
The library offers up to fifteen places for participants and will cover their expenses for accommodation and breakfast. Each participant will receive a subsidy of 200 Euros to cover living costs. Travel expenses are reimbursed in accordance to the flat-rate allowances of the DAAD.
There are no application forms. Applicants should state their reasons for wishing to participate in the course and send a c.v. which describes their academic career and their current research. Please also supply the address of an academic referee who may be contacted to supply a reference if needed. The deadline is 28th February 2017.
International participants, who have a concrete interest in the holdings, may informally apply in their cover letter for a week-long archival research visit following the summer school. If approved, the MWW Research Association will cover the additional accommodation expenses in Wolfenbüttel.
Applications should be submitted, preferably by email, to:
forschung@hab.de
Herzog August Bibliothek, Postfach 13 64, D-38299 Wolfenbüttel, Fax-Nr.: +49 5331- 808 266
Research Interests:
Plan d’accès: Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée Cité Descartes Bâtiment Bois de l’Étang - Salle C219 5, boulevard Descartes 77420 Champs-sur-Marne Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles. Information... more
Plan d’accès:
Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
Cité Descartes
Bâtiment Bois de l’Étang - Salle C219
5, boulevard Descartes
77420 Champs-sur-Marne
Entrée libre dans la limite
des places disponibles.
Information
pauline.lemaigre-gaffier@uvsq.fr
Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
Cité Descartes
Bâtiment Bois de l’Étang - Salle C219
5, boulevard Descartes
77420 Champs-sur-Marne
Entrée libre dans la limite
des places disponibles.
Information
pauline.lemaigre-gaffier@uvsq.fr
Research Interests:
From 4 - 8 July 2016, at the University of Liège, the EpistolART team is organising a seminar devoted to the publishing and study of letters from Italian Renaissance artists. The five-day programme includes: - Theory sessions focusing on... more
From 4 - 8 July 2016, at the University of Liège, the EpistolART team is organising a seminar devoted to the publishing and study of letters from Italian Renaissance artists.
The five-day programme includes:
- Theory sessions focusing on codicological, paleographic, linguistic and historico-cultural aspects of the letters;
- practical sessions dedicated to the transcription, linguistic study and history of the letters as well as their digital processing;
- lectures given by internationally-renowned specialists;
- discussions between researchers and guest speakers;
- a tour of the city of Liège.
During the seminar, participants will take part in the complete publishing of one or more epistolary documents. This work will result in a nominative publication in the EpistolART database.
Organisation and scientific responsibility
ORGANISERS: Cristiano Amendola, Antonio Geremicca, Hélène Miesse and Gianluca Valenti
LECTURERS: Dominique Allart, Cristiano Amendola, Annick Delfosse, Laure Fagnart, Alessandro Aresti, Antonio Geremicca, Hélène Miesse, Paola Moreno and Gianluca Valenti
GUEST RESEARCHERS: Lucia Aquino, Antonio Ciaralli and Matteo Motolese
GUEST SPEAKERS: Marie-Luce Demonet, Renzo Bragantini and Alessio Assonitis
Target audience
The seminar is aimed at researchers, doctoral students and post-doctoral students in the humanities. The curricula of the most deserving students may also be taken into account.
The corpus of the texts which will be analysed and transcribed during the classes requires a good knowledge of Italian. Applicants should also have at least passive knowledge of French and English.
Objectives
The seminar organised by the EpistolART project team aims to develop philological, linguistic and historical research skills in the field of the digital publishing of letters from the Quattrocento and the Cinquecento. The corpus concerned will be from the Carteggio inedito d’artisti dei secoli XIV, XV e XVI, published between 1839 and 1840 by Johann Wilhelm Gaye, an anthology which is at the heart of the EpistolART project.
Credit
Each participant will receive a certificate of participation at the end of the seminar.
Contribution to the costs
Registration fees are €500 to be paid no later than one month after receipt of the confirmation of acceptance. This amount will cover accommodation costs, lunch, coffee breaks and access to IT and library resources at the University of Liège.
Applications
Applications, including a curriculum vitae and a cover letter (max. 1,000 characters) must be sent by email to epistolart@ulg.ac.be no later than 3 April 2016.
Students not holding a Master's degree should attach a cover letter from one of their professors to their application. Selection will be based on applicants' experience and the goals expressed in the letter.
Grants
Grants will be offered to the most deserving applicants to cover the registration fees.
The five-day programme includes:
- Theory sessions focusing on codicological, paleographic, linguistic and historico-cultural aspects of the letters;
- practical sessions dedicated to the transcription, linguistic study and history of the letters as well as their digital processing;
- lectures given by internationally-renowned specialists;
- discussions between researchers and guest speakers;
- a tour of the city of Liège.
During the seminar, participants will take part in the complete publishing of one or more epistolary documents. This work will result in a nominative publication in the EpistolART database.
Organisation and scientific responsibility
ORGANISERS: Cristiano Amendola, Antonio Geremicca, Hélène Miesse and Gianluca Valenti
LECTURERS: Dominique Allart, Cristiano Amendola, Annick Delfosse, Laure Fagnart, Alessandro Aresti, Antonio Geremicca, Hélène Miesse, Paola Moreno and Gianluca Valenti
GUEST RESEARCHERS: Lucia Aquino, Antonio Ciaralli and Matteo Motolese
GUEST SPEAKERS: Marie-Luce Demonet, Renzo Bragantini and Alessio Assonitis
Target audience
The seminar is aimed at researchers, doctoral students and post-doctoral students in the humanities. The curricula of the most deserving students may also be taken into account.
The corpus of the texts which will be analysed and transcribed during the classes requires a good knowledge of Italian. Applicants should also have at least passive knowledge of French and English.
Objectives
The seminar organised by the EpistolART project team aims to develop philological, linguistic and historical research skills in the field of the digital publishing of letters from the Quattrocento and the Cinquecento. The corpus concerned will be from the Carteggio inedito d’artisti dei secoli XIV, XV e XVI, published between 1839 and 1840 by Johann Wilhelm Gaye, an anthology which is at the heart of the EpistolART project.
Credit
Each participant will receive a certificate of participation at the end of the seminar.
Contribution to the costs
Registration fees are €500 to be paid no later than one month after receipt of the confirmation of acceptance. This amount will cover accommodation costs, lunch, coffee breaks and access to IT and library resources at the University of Liège.
Applications
Applications, including a curriculum vitae and a cover letter (max. 1,000 characters) must be sent by email to epistolart@ulg.ac.be no later than 3 April 2016.
Students not holding a Master's degree should attach a cover letter from one of their professors to their application. Selection will be based on applicants' experience and the goals expressed in the letter.
Grants
Grants will be offered to the most deserving applicants to cover the registration fees.
Research Interests:
Paper is today so ubiquitous that we often overlook it. Yet paper was once a brand-new communications technology and political tool that fundamentally influenced early modern political life in myriad ways. The revolutionary effects of... more
Paper is today so ubiquitous that we often overlook it. Yet paper was once a brand-new communications technology and political tool that fundamentally influenced early modern political life in myriad ways. The revolutionary effects of paper on European politics and political communications are strikingly visible from the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries onwards.
Although scholars of early modern politics and political communications depend upon paper as a building-block of their craft, we still know too little about the paper upon which early modern princes, statesmen, diplomats, secretaries, archivists, informers, spies, smugglers, couriers, postmasters, stationers, or newswriters depended. To paraphrase paperwork ethnologist Ben Kafka, historians have tended to look through paper, at how it can be used to reconstruct events or epistemic processes, but rarely at it, as a material artifact and communications technology around which coherent historical practices developed.
This two-day conference seeks to bring together scholars and paper experts working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas who are interested in the ways in which paper supported, shaped, or otherwise influenced practices of politics and political communications in the period ca.1350-ca.1800. It aims to sketch a more integral picture of the ways in which paper permitted early modern politics and political communications to unfold.
This conference is part of the four-year research project 'Paper Princes: Paper in Early Modern Diplomacy and Statecraft', conducted by Dr. Megan K. Williams of the University of Groningen and funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). For more on the project see rug.nl/staff/m.k.williams or the project website, paperprinces.org.
Although scholars of early modern politics and political communications depend upon paper as a building-block of their craft, we still know too little about the paper upon which early modern princes, statesmen, diplomats, secretaries, archivists, informers, spies, smugglers, couriers, postmasters, stationers, or newswriters depended. To paraphrase paperwork ethnologist Ben Kafka, historians have tended to look through paper, at how it can be used to reconstruct events or epistemic processes, but rarely at it, as a material artifact and communications technology around which coherent historical practices developed.
This two-day conference seeks to bring together scholars and paper experts working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas who are interested in the ways in which paper supported, shaped, or otherwise influenced practices of politics and political communications in the period ca.1350-ca.1800. It aims to sketch a more integral picture of the ways in which paper permitted early modern politics and political communications to unfold.
This conference is part of the four-year research project 'Paper Princes: Paper in Early Modern Diplomacy and Statecraft', conducted by Dr. Megan K. Williams of the University of Groningen and funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). For more on the project see rug.nl/staff/m.k.williams or the project website, paperprinces.org.
Research Interests:
European History 1500-1800 Convenors: Philip Broadhead (Goldsmiths), Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck), Joel Felix (Reading), John Henderson (Birkbeck)Julian Swann (Birkbeck), Silvia Evangelisti (UEA) For enquiries relating to this seminar... more
European History 1500-1800
Convenors: Philip Broadhead (Goldsmiths), Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck), Joel Felix (Reading), John Henderson (Birkbeck)Julian Swann (Birkbeck), Silvia Evangelisti (UEA)
For enquiries relating to this seminar please contact Filippo de Vivo: f.de-vivo@bbk.ac.uk or Julian Swann: j.swann@bbk.ac.uk
Venue: Past & Present Room, N202, 2nd Floor, IHR, North block, Senate House unless otherwise stated
Time: Monday, 5.15pm
Convenors: Philip Broadhead (Goldsmiths), Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck), Joel Felix (Reading), John Henderson (Birkbeck)Julian Swann (Birkbeck), Silvia Evangelisti (UEA)
For enquiries relating to this seminar please contact Filippo de Vivo: f.de-vivo@bbk.ac.uk or Julian Swann: j.swann@bbk.ac.uk
Venue: Past & Present Room, N202, 2nd Floor, IHR, North block, Senate House unless otherwise stated
Time: Monday, 5.15pm
Research Interests:
Presentazione e discussione intorno ai due libri "Archivi e archivisti in Italia tra Medioevo ed Età Moderna" (a cura di F. de Vivo, A. Guidi, A. Silvestri) e "Tramiti. Figure e strumenti della mediazione culturale nella prima età... more
Presentazione e discussione intorno ai due libri "Archivi e archivisti in Italia tra Medioevo ed Età Moderna" (a cura di F. de Vivo, A. Guidi, A. Silvestri) e "Tramiti. Figure e strumenti della mediazione culturale nella prima età moderna" (a cura di E. Andretta, E. Valeri, M.A. Visceglia, P. Volpini)
Research Interests:
Presentation of ARCHIves project at Stanford's Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Research Interests:
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Se chiude per un giorno il Colosseo, tutti i giornali ne parlano. Se per tre anni chiude la principale emeroteca italiana e se il principale Archivio di Stato italiano diminuisce di oltre il 60% il numero di faldoni che ogni ricercatore... more
Se chiude per un giorno il Colosseo, tutti i giornali ne parlano. Se per tre anni chiude la principale emeroteca italiana e se il principale Archivio di Stato italiano diminuisce di oltre il 60% il numero di faldoni che ogni ricercatore può richiedere al giorno, nessun giornale ne parla. Il taglio dei servizi al pubblico di archivi e biblioteche, però, costringe storici e altri ricercatori a rinunciare ai propri progetti di ricerca o a ridimensionarli fortemente.
Non ce ne rendiamo conto, ma la conseguenza è che stiamo perdendo occasioni per conoscere meglio la nostra storia e comprendere meglio il nostro paese. Nella distrazione generale, diventiamo letteralmente più ignoranti.
Negli ultimi vent’anni, il personale di Archivi di Stato e Biblioteche pubbliche statali è costantemente diminuito. Vi sono ormai diversi Archivi di Stato con un solo archivista e Biblioteche importanti costrette a ridurre orari e servizi per mancanza di personale. A breve la maggior parte del personale andrà in pensione; tra i 621 archivisti di Stato, oltre 400 (il 66 %) hanno almeno sessant’anni; tra gli 887 bibliotecari, i sessantenni sono più di 550 (il 63 %). L’assunzione di 500 funzionari nel Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo, prevista dalla legge di stabilità 2016 - che dovrà comprendere anche archeologi, architetti, demoetnoantropologi, funzionari per la promozione e comunicazione, restauratori e storici dell'arte – non sarà sufficiente a coprire la voragine che si sta aprendo nei ruoli di archivisti e bibliotecari.
Allo stesso tempo, tagli di bilancio e mancanza di capacità progettuale hanno contribuito a determinare un forte ritardo nell’affrontare alcune delle sfide chiave per gli archivi e le biblioteche del XXI secolo, quali la conservazione degli archivi nati digitali e la conservazione dei siti web e delle risorse digitali. Molti dei documenti digitali prodotti in Italia negli ultimi decenni sono ormai persi per sempre.
Il coordinamento nazionale per gli archivi e le biblioteche ritiene che per uscire da questa situazione di crisi siano essenziali da un lato una robusta immissione di personale (qualificato, selezionato per pubblico concorso e a tempo indeterminato), che permetta nei prossimi anni di coprire integralmente il turn over, e dall’altra finanziamenti all’altezza di un grande paese europeo. Essenziali, ma non sufficienti.
È infatti allo stesso tempo indispensabile costruire una più matura progettualità. L’esperienza insegna che non sempre maggiori fondi producono migliori servizi, che vadano realmente incontro ai bisogni dell’utenza. Siamo convinti che la capacità di progettare gli archivi e le biblioteche statali del XXI secolo, mettere a fuoco i bisogni dei cittadini e individuare le soluzioni più efficienti possa scaturire solo dal dialogo tra specialisti del settore, cittadini che utilizzano Archivi di Stato e Biblioteche per le loro ricerche e altri soggetti a vario titolo interessati al funzionamento di archivi e biblioteche.
Per questo, il Coordinamento nazionale per gli archivi e le biblioteche organizza per il giorno 15 aprile una giornata di dibattito e di approfondimenti, mettendo a confronto archivisti, bibliotecari, storici e giornalisti. Invitiamo a partecipare operatori e utenti di archivi e biblioteche, nonché tutti i cittadini che ritengono che archivi e biblioteche, in quanto infrastrutture essenziali per la conoscenza, siano uno dei mattoni con cui si costruisce la nostra democrazia.
Non ce ne rendiamo conto, ma la conseguenza è che stiamo perdendo occasioni per conoscere meglio la nostra storia e comprendere meglio il nostro paese. Nella distrazione generale, diventiamo letteralmente più ignoranti.
Negli ultimi vent’anni, il personale di Archivi di Stato e Biblioteche pubbliche statali è costantemente diminuito. Vi sono ormai diversi Archivi di Stato con un solo archivista e Biblioteche importanti costrette a ridurre orari e servizi per mancanza di personale. A breve la maggior parte del personale andrà in pensione; tra i 621 archivisti di Stato, oltre 400 (il 66 %) hanno almeno sessant’anni; tra gli 887 bibliotecari, i sessantenni sono più di 550 (il 63 %). L’assunzione di 500 funzionari nel Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo, prevista dalla legge di stabilità 2016 - che dovrà comprendere anche archeologi, architetti, demoetnoantropologi, funzionari per la promozione e comunicazione, restauratori e storici dell'arte – non sarà sufficiente a coprire la voragine che si sta aprendo nei ruoli di archivisti e bibliotecari.
Allo stesso tempo, tagli di bilancio e mancanza di capacità progettuale hanno contribuito a determinare un forte ritardo nell’affrontare alcune delle sfide chiave per gli archivi e le biblioteche del XXI secolo, quali la conservazione degli archivi nati digitali e la conservazione dei siti web e delle risorse digitali. Molti dei documenti digitali prodotti in Italia negli ultimi decenni sono ormai persi per sempre.
Il coordinamento nazionale per gli archivi e le biblioteche ritiene che per uscire da questa situazione di crisi siano essenziali da un lato una robusta immissione di personale (qualificato, selezionato per pubblico concorso e a tempo indeterminato), che permetta nei prossimi anni di coprire integralmente il turn over, e dall’altra finanziamenti all’altezza di un grande paese europeo. Essenziali, ma non sufficienti.
È infatti allo stesso tempo indispensabile costruire una più matura progettualità. L’esperienza insegna che non sempre maggiori fondi producono migliori servizi, che vadano realmente incontro ai bisogni dell’utenza. Siamo convinti che la capacità di progettare gli archivi e le biblioteche statali del XXI secolo, mettere a fuoco i bisogni dei cittadini e individuare le soluzioni più efficienti possa scaturire solo dal dialogo tra specialisti del settore, cittadini che utilizzano Archivi di Stato e Biblioteche per le loro ricerche e altri soggetti a vario titolo interessati al funzionamento di archivi e biblioteche.
Per questo, il Coordinamento nazionale per gli archivi e le biblioteche organizza per il giorno 15 aprile una giornata di dibattito e di approfondimenti, mettendo a confronto archivisti, bibliotecari, storici e giornalisti. Invitiamo a partecipare operatori e utenti di archivi e biblioteche, nonché tutti i cittadini che ritengono che archivi e biblioteche, in quanto infrastrutture essenziali per la conoscenza, siano uno dei mattoni con cui si costruisce la nostra democrazia.
Research Interests:
Listen to the presentation of our books at:
http://www.radio3.rai.it/dl/portaleRadio/media/ContentItem-43d98bc3-6262-462c-aa0d-86c0403b6bc7.html
http://www.radio3.rai.it/dl/portaleRadio/media/ContentItem-43d98bc3-6262-462c-aa0d-86c0403b6bc7.html
Research Interests:
Una discussione a partire dalla recente edizione del volume “Archivi e archivisti tra medioevo ed età moderna” (Roma, Viella, 2015). Intervengono: prof. Gian Maria Varanini (Università di Verona) prof. Andrea Giorgi (Università di... more
Una discussione a partire dalla recente edizione del volume “Archivi e archivisti tra medioevo ed età moderna” (Roma, Viella, 2015).
Intervengono:
prof. Gian Maria Varanini (Università di Verona)
prof. Andrea Giorgi (Università di Trento)
prof. Alessandro Arcangeli (Università di Verona)
Partecipa il curatore:
prof. Filippo De Vivo (Birkbeck College di Londra)
Intervengono:
prof. Gian Maria Varanini (Università di Verona)
prof. Andrea Giorgi (Università di Trento)
prof. Alessandro Arcangeli (Università di Verona)
Partecipa il curatore:
prof. Filippo De Vivo (Birkbeck College di Londra)
Research Interests:
A week of events to be voice of thousands of kilometres of documents which are the extraordinary heritage of Italian Archives Without Archives, we lose our heritage, we lose our documents which are our history and our identity. We lose... more
A week of events to be voice of thousands of kilometres of documents which are the extraordinary heritage of Italian Archives
Without Archives, we lose our heritage, we lose our documents which are our history and our identity. We lose the opportunity to learn from the past and build the present and the future. We risk missing the charge to use our citizens’ rights in our everyday life: in our relations with governments, at banks as customers, at the doctor’s as patients, when we buy services, at work place.
The Archives are everyone’s patrimony. They document ongoing activities, they guarantee rights and preserve the memory. The Archives are everywhere and represent various contexts, both public and private ones: public offices, local administrations, hospitals, schools, military institutions, tribunals, companies, families …
The aim of archives and archivists who work within their communities is to avoid losing this treasure.
Without law archives trials couldn’t be conducted, cases couldn’t be reopened when new evidence arises. Without archives important work-related lawsuits couldn’t be held before a court, such as the asbestos-related trials. Without case studies and data preserved in scientific archives, research couldn’t go on and we couldn’t have done many fundamental discoveries. Doctors couldn’t study diseases and find and experiment new therapies. Without hospitals archives, our clinical life couldn’t be reconstructed and doctors wouldn’t have the documents they need to take care of us. Without the documents that give us data about the weather conditions trough the centuries, we couldn’t study climate changes. Without historical cartography and documents that describe the landscape evolution, we couldn’t study the environment and prevent floods and landslides. We couldn’t plan actions on landscape such as evaluation of earthquakes consequences (And, unfortunately we’re not doing enough!). Without archives, it wouldn’t be possible to know the violence of dictatorships, to analyse the politics over the years. We couldn’t investigate on terrorism, massacres, mafia.
The Italian National Association of Archivist (ANAI) promotes a week full of events in order to introduce citizens to our national rich archival heritage and to call on governments to guarantee appropriate resources to protect and promote this heritage, and to manage digital preservation with full awareness. Digital documents have many advantages but expose to risks which we have to evaluate immediately and carefully.
Guarantee the safeguard of thousands of kilometres of archives all over the Country
Manage both selection and appraisal
Preside over the transition from paper to digital by nears of professional skills.
The way we build our archives is the representation of how we conceive social relationships and also the society that we would live to build.
Without Archives, we lose our heritage, we lose our documents which are our history and our identity. We lose the opportunity to learn from the past and build the present and the future. We risk missing the charge to use our citizens’ rights in our everyday life: in our relations with governments, at banks as customers, at the doctor’s as patients, when we buy services, at work place.
The Archives are everyone’s patrimony. They document ongoing activities, they guarantee rights and preserve the memory. The Archives are everywhere and represent various contexts, both public and private ones: public offices, local administrations, hospitals, schools, military institutions, tribunals, companies, families …
The aim of archives and archivists who work within their communities is to avoid losing this treasure.
Without law archives trials couldn’t be conducted, cases couldn’t be reopened when new evidence arises. Without archives important work-related lawsuits couldn’t be held before a court, such as the asbestos-related trials. Without case studies and data preserved in scientific archives, research couldn’t go on and we couldn’t have done many fundamental discoveries. Doctors couldn’t study diseases and find and experiment new therapies. Without hospitals archives, our clinical life couldn’t be reconstructed and doctors wouldn’t have the documents they need to take care of us. Without the documents that give us data about the weather conditions trough the centuries, we couldn’t study climate changes. Without historical cartography and documents that describe the landscape evolution, we couldn’t study the environment and prevent floods and landslides. We couldn’t plan actions on landscape such as evaluation of earthquakes consequences (And, unfortunately we’re not doing enough!). Without archives, it wouldn’t be possible to know the violence of dictatorships, to analyse the politics over the years. We couldn’t investigate on terrorism, massacres, mafia.
The Italian National Association of Archivist (ANAI) promotes a week full of events in order to introduce citizens to our national rich archival heritage and to call on governments to guarantee appropriate resources to protect and promote this heritage, and to manage digital preservation with full awareness. Digital documents have many advantages but expose to risks which we have to evaluate immediately and carefully.
Guarantee the safeguard of thousands of kilometres of archives all over the Country
Manage both selection and appraisal
Preside over the transition from paper to digital by nears of professional skills.
The way we build our archives is the representation of how we conceive social relationships and also the society that we would live to build.
Research Interests:
The Matter of the Archive before 1700 21 April 2016, 10ish - 17:00ish Birkbeck, University of London Keynes Library (Room 114, in 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London) Map ; Nearest Tube: Euston Station or Russell Square; also close;... more
The Matter of the Archive before 1700
21 April 2016, 10ish - 17:00ish
Birkbeck, University of London
Keynes Library
(Room 114, in 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London)
Map ; Nearest Tube: Euston Station or Russell Square; also close; Euston Square or Kings Cross
Programme for our study day ‘The Matter of the Archive before 1700’.
We intend to have a very loosely structured day, with lots of opportunities to meet each other, talk about research, and begin conversations. We are keen to share knowledge and practice, as well as open up broad areas for discussion and research network development across institutions and disciplines. We also see this day as an opportunity to identify and develop relationships with archives, repositories, and libraries which can become partners in both training and research activities.
There is room for about a dozen further participants to attend. If any colleagues, including doctoral students, would like to participate, please get in touch: c.goodson@bbk.ac.uk.
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30 Welcome, introductions
Informal presentations: 15 min each, questions & discussion afterwards
11:00 Objects
Leah Clark (OU) The Inventory as Object: Account Books from the Court of Ferrara
Sue Wiseman (BBK) An object and its textual history
11:45 Intermediality
Helen Gittos (Kent) Medieval liturgy and architecture
Caroline Goodson (BBK) Early medieval charters and their material worlds
13:00 Lunch - sandwiches and chat
14:00 Senses
Peg Katritzky (OU) Early modern album amicorum illustrations of theatrical interest through German and other European and British archives.
14:30 Formation and use
Filippo De Vivo (BBK) AR.C.H.I.ves project, on the history of archives in late medieval and early modern Italy
Anthony Bale (BBK) Pilgrim libraries
A look at other things afoot in CHASE: Ryan Perry and Catherine Richardson (Kent) on Material Witness.
15:15: The future of Archive studies -- Open Discussion
21 April 2016, 10ish - 17:00ish
Birkbeck, University of London
Keynes Library
(Room 114, in 43 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London)
Map ; Nearest Tube: Euston Station or Russell Square; also close; Euston Square or Kings Cross
Programme for our study day ‘The Matter of the Archive before 1700’.
We intend to have a very loosely structured day, with lots of opportunities to meet each other, talk about research, and begin conversations. We are keen to share knowledge and practice, as well as open up broad areas for discussion and research network development across institutions and disciplines. We also see this day as an opportunity to identify and develop relationships with archives, repositories, and libraries which can become partners in both training and research activities.
There is room for about a dozen further participants to attend. If any colleagues, including doctoral students, would like to participate, please get in touch: c.goodson@bbk.ac.uk.
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30 Welcome, introductions
Informal presentations: 15 min each, questions & discussion afterwards
11:00 Objects
Leah Clark (OU) The Inventory as Object: Account Books from the Court of Ferrara
Sue Wiseman (BBK) An object and its textual history
11:45 Intermediality
Helen Gittos (Kent) Medieval liturgy and architecture
Caroline Goodson (BBK) Early medieval charters and their material worlds
13:00 Lunch - sandwiches and chat
14:00 Senses
Peg Katritzky (OU) Early modern album amicorum illustrations of theatrical interest through German and other European and British archives.
14:30 Formation and use
Filippo De Vivo (BBK) AR.C.H.I.ves project, on the history of archives in late medieval and early modern Italy
Anthony Bale (BBK) Pilgrim libraries
A look at other things afoot in CHASE: Ryan Perry and Catherine Richardson (Kent) on Material Witness.
15:15: The future of Archive studies -- Open Discussion
Research Interests:
Contact : isabelle.bretthauer[at]uvsq.fr m.helias[at]irht.cnrs.fr Ce séminaire, dont la première séance se tient lundi 11 janvier 2016 aux Archives nationales, a pour objectif de mettre en lumière l'évolution des formes et des usages de... more
Contact :
isabelle.bretthauer[at]uvsq.fr
m.helias[at]irht.cnrs.fr
Ce séminaire, dont la première séance se tient lundi 11 janvier 2016 aux Archives nationales, a pour objectif de mettre en lumière l'évolution des formes et des usages de l'écrit au cours des XIIIe et XIVe siècles et de comprendre ses prolongements par-delà le Moyen Âge, dans un contexte où l’écrit devient de plus en plus foisonnant.
Prolongeant les journées de recherche organisées par le LAMOP et DYPAC en janvier 2015 sur ce thème au Moyen Âge, il entend examiner sur la longue durée (XIIIe-XVIIIe siècle) la place et le rôle de l’écrit dans les pratiques administratives, comptables et marchandes, en prêtant une attention particulière aux conditions de production, d’utilisation et de réutilisation de l’écrit.
Trois thèmes seront au centre des réflexions. Le premier concerne le classement des écrits produits et leur transformation progressive en documents d’archives. Certaines formes d’organisation sont en effet nécessaires pour faire face à l’augmentation exponentielle des documents et en permettre l’éventuelle réutilisation. Une attention particulière sera également portée sur le contrôle des biens et des hommes par le biais d’écrits qui mettent en scène des structures sociales déjà existantes ; dans le même temps, un tel encadrement n’est pas sans effet sur les biens ainsi gérés et les hommes ainsi gouvernés. Enfin, nous n’oublierons pas que l’administration par l’écrit n’est pas réservée aux autorités et aux institutions qui en émanent : ainsi en va-t-il des pratiques comptables mises en œuvre dans le monde marchand. La systématisation de telles méthodes à l’échelle des individus est un phénomène de la fin du Moyen Âge qu’il convient d’interroger sur le long terme.
Le séminaire est organisé de manière mutualisée par cinq institutions : les Archives nationales, l’École nationale des chartes, le LAMOP (université Paris I), DYPAC (université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin), et l’IRHT. Il est ouvert aux étudiants de master et de doctorat, ainsi qu’aux chercheurs. Pour cette première année, trois séances sont organisées et complétées par une journée d’étude le 1er juin 2016.
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Programme :
Séance 1 : lundi 11 janvier2016 : « Les comptabilités de cours aux époques médiévale et moderne » (Archives nationales, 14h-17h)
Bruno Laurioux (DYPAC/UVSQ) : « Entre cour et jardin : les comptes alimentaires des maisons royales, princières et seigneuriales entre XIIe et XVe siècle » Pauline Lemaigre-Gaffier (DYPAC/UVSQ) : « Classer, archiver et engager : les comptes de la Maison du Roi au xviiie siècle »
Séance 2 : vendredi 12 février 2016 : « La fabrique de l’écrit » (Archives nationales, 14h-17h) (mutualisé avec le séminaire d’Histoire de Paris de l’IRHT)
Olivier Canteaut (Centre Jean-Mabillon/École nationale des chartes), « Quand le roi de France écrit à ses sujets : de quelques difficultés matérielles du gouvernement à distance (fin XIIIe s.-début XIVe s.) » Anne Jolly (Institut national du patrimoine), « La production comptable des trésoriers et ingénieurs des Ponts-et-Chaussées au XVIIIe siècle : quel impact sur la détermination de la politique routière monarchique ? »
Séance 3 : mercredi 16 mars 2016 : « Gérer ses affaires par l’écrit » (Archives nationales, 14h-17h)
Mélanie Morestin-Dubois (LAMOP/Université Paris 1), « Les archives privées de Jean Teisseire, marchand du XIVe siècle: une administration de l'écrit, par l'écrit » Julien Villain (IDHES/Université Paris 1) : « Des instruments de contrôle des flux de crédit : les comptabilités des marchands grossistes et des boutiquiers lorrains au XVIIIe siècle »
Journée d’étude : Mercredi 1er juin 2016 : « Administrer par les archives » (IRHT, Centre Félix Grat, 9h-17h15)
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m.helias[at]irht.cnrs.fr
Ce séminaire, dont la première séance se tient lundi 11 janvier 2016 aux Archives nationales, a pour objectif de mettre en lumière l'évolution des formes et des usages de l'écrit au cours des XIIIe et XIVe siècles et de comprendre ses prolongements par-delà le Moyen Âge, dans un contexte où l’écrit devient de plus en plus foisonnant.
Prolongeant les journées de recherche organisées par le LAMOP et DYPAC en janvier 2015 sur ce thème au Moyen Âge, il entend examiner sur la longue durée (XIIIe-XVIIIe siècle) la place et le rôle de l’écrit dans les pratiques administratives, comptables et marchandes, en prêtant une attention particulière aux conditions de production, d’utilisation et de réutilisation de l’écrit.
Trois thèmes seront au centre des réflexions. Le premier concerne le classement des écrits produits et leur transformation progressive en documents d’archives. Certaines formes d’organisation sont en effet nécessaires pour faire face à l’augmentation exponentielle des documents et en permettre l’éventuelle réutilisation. Une attention particulière sera également portée sur le contrôle des biens et des hommes par le biais d’écrits qui mettent en scène des structures sociales déjà existantes ; dans le même temps, un tel encadrement n’est pas sans effet sur les biens ainsi gérés et les hommes ainsi gouvernés. Enfin, nous n’oublierons pas que l’administration par l’écrit n’est pas réservée aux autorités et aux institutions qui en émanent : ainsi en va-t-il des pratiques comptables mises en œuvre dans le monde marchand. La systématisation de telles méthodes à l’échelle des individus est un phénomène de la fin du Moyen Âge qu’il convient d’interroger sur le long terme.
Le séminaire est organisé de manière mutualisée par cinq institutions : les Archives nationales, l’École nationale des chartes, le LAMOP (université Paris I), DYPAC (université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin), et l’IRHT. Il est ouvert aux étudiants de master et de doctorat, ainsi qu’aux chercheurs. Pour cette première année, trois séances sont organisées et complétées par une journée d’étude le 1er juin 2016.
valenciennesbm536f14v
Programme :
Séance 1 : lundi 11 janvier2016 : « Les comptabilités de cours aux époques médiévale et moderne » (Archives nationales, 14h-17h)
Bruno Laurioux (DYPAC/UVSQ) : « Entre cour et jardin : les comptes alimentaires des maisons royales, princières et seigneuriales entre XIIe et XVe siècle » Pauline Lemaigre-Gaffier (DYPAC/UVSQ) : « Classer, archiver et engager : les comptes de la Maison du Roi au xviiie siècle »
Séance 2 : vendredi 12 février 2016 : « La fabrique de l’écrit » (Archives nationales, 14h-17h) (mutualisé avec le séminaire d’Histoire de Paris de l’IRHT)
Olivier Canteaut (Centre Jean-Mabillon/École nationale des chartes), « Quand le roi de France écrit à ses sujets : de quelques difficultés matérielles du gouvernement à distance (fin XIIIe s.-début XIVe s.) » Anne Jolly (Institut national du patrimoine), « La production comptable des trésoriers et ingénieurs des Ponts-et-Chaussées au XVIIIe siècle : quel impact sur la détermination de la politique routière monarchique ? »
Séance 3 : mercredi 16 mars 2016 : « Gérer ses affaires par l’écrit » (Archives nationales, 14h-17h)
Mélanie Morestin-Dubois (LAMOP/Université Paris 1), « Les archives privées de Jean Teisseire, marchand du XIVe siècle: une administration de l'écrit, par l'écrit » Julien Villain (IDHES/Université Paris 1) : « Des instruments de contrôle des flux de crédit : les comptabilités des marchands grossistes et des boutiquiers lorrains au XVIIIe siècle »
Journée d’étude : Mercredi 1er juin 2016 : « Administrer par les archives » (IRHT, Centre Félix Grat, 9h-17h15)
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Historians, Archivists and the Archive Historians and archivists share an interest in records and evidence but think about archives in fundamentally different ways. In recent years they have begun separately to develop conceptual ideas... more
Historians, Archivists and the Archive
Historians and archivists share an interest in records and evidence but think about archives in fundamentally different ways. In recent years they have begun separately to develop conceptual ideas of the archive as a constructed reality and to explore notions of the archive as a site of political power and a site of contestation around identity and community. These two events seek to bring together historians, archivists and scholars from other cognate disciplines to explore shared understandings of the nature of the archive, which is highly topical as archives shift from the traditional fixity of text to the fluidity of multi-faceted digital objects.
IHR Winter Conference 29 January 2016- The Production of the Archive
The first event will focus on the Production of the Archive. It will consider the agency of the archivist whose actions, including appraisal, selection, description and the operation of closure or open access, are now seen as part of the co-production of the archive. Historians and other users of the archive, rather than simply seeing the archivist as a neutral ‘servant or handmaiden of history’, are interested in the record creation and curation activities undertaken and the effect of the creating context on the production of the archive. Historians can also be seen as co-creators of the archive when they use and reuse the archive through their personal selection and interpretation and through a more conscious engagement with the archive in their work.
Following a keynote by the esteemed international archival science scholar, Professor Eric Ketelaar, the conference will offer three provocative sessions, on Text, Text to Digital and Beyond Text, in which speakers from different disciplines will present their reflections and engage in discussion. The day will conclude with a round table, including Jeff James, Chief Executive and Keeper of The National Archives.
To register for this event visit the University of London Online Store
Gerald Aylmer Seminar 29 April 2016-The Experience of the Archive
The second event will consider the Experience of the Archive. It will focus on the critical questions which surround the individual, personal and community experience of the archive and the ways in which that experience affects how the archive is understood and used. Just as the production of the archive is not neutral or static, the use of the archive is a matter not only of the content found there but also of the process by which the archive is experienced. In a digital world, the experience of ‘reading’ the archive may be very different from the traditional engagement which required a scholar to travel through time and space to read the archive. Is there something of the physical experience of being in the archive which is still valuable? What other insights does the experience of the archive bring?
Following the keynote by Professor Carolyn Steedman `In the Archive, Hearing Things: Lord Mansfield’s Voices’, the seminar will offer four thematic sessions in which speakers will address issues from multiple archival and scholarly perspectives. Speakers include established partnerships between historians and archivists, such as historian Filippo de Vivo and archivist Claudia Salmini who have collaborated on the ERC-funded AR.C.H.I.ves project on early modern Italy. Other speakers will reflect on the experience of the archive from disciplinary perspectives including biography, literary and feminist studies, and ways in which the archivist experiences the archive.
Historians and archivists share an interest in records and evidence but think about archives in fundamentally different ways. In recent years they have begun separately to develop conceptual ideas of the archive as a constructed reality and to explore notions of the archive as a site of political power and a site of contestation around identity and community. These two events seek to bring together historians, archivists and scholars from other cognate disciplines to explore shared understandings of the nature of the archive, which is highly topical as archives shift from the traditional fixity of text to the fluidity of multi-faceted digital objects.
IHR Winter Conference 29 January 2016- The Production of the Archive
The first event will focus on the Production of the Archive. It will consider the agency of the archivist whose actions, including appraisal, selection, description and the operation of closure or open access, are now seen as part of the co-production of the archive. Historians and other users of the archive, rather than simply seeing the archivist as a neutral ‘servant or handmaiden of history’, are interested in the record creation and curation activities undertaken and the effect of the creating context on the production of the archive. Historians can also be seen as co-creators of the archive when they use and reuse the archive through their personal selection and interpretation and through a more conscious engagement with the archive in their work.
Following a keynote by the esteemed international archival science scholar, Professor Eric Ketelaar, the conference will offer three provocative sessions, on Text, Text to Digital and Beyond Text, in which speakers from different disciplines will present their reflections and engage in discussion. The day will conclude with a round table, including Jeff James, Chief Executive and Keeper of The National Archives.
To register for this event visit the University of London Online Store
Gerald Aylmer Seminar 29 April 2016-The Experience of the Archive
The second event will consider the Experience of the Archive. It will focus on the critical questions which surround the individual, personal and community experience of the archive and the ways in which that experience affects how the archive is understood and used. Just as the production of the archive is not neutral or static, the use of the archive is a matter not only of the content found there but also of the process by which the archive is experienced. In a digital world, the experience of ‘reading’ the archive may be very different from the traditional engagement which required a scholar to travel through time and space to read the archive. Is there something of the physical experience of being in the archive which is still valuable? What other insights does the experience of the archive bring?
Following the keynote by Professor Carolyn Steedman `In the Archive, Hearing Things: Lord Mansfield’s Voices’, the seminar will offer four thematic sessions in which speakers will address issues from multiple archival and scholarly perspectives. Speakers include established partnerships between historians and archivists, such as historian Filippo de Vivo and archivist Claudia Salmini who have collaborated on the ERC-funded AR.C.H.I.ves project on early modern Italy. Other speakers will reflect on the experience of the archive from disciplinary perspectives including biography, literary and feminist studies, and ways in which the archivist experiences the archive.
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The organisers invite proposals for twenty-minute papers and welcome all disciplines and every level of academic career. Deadline for submissions is 8 January 2016. To submit proposals or ask any further questions, contact us on... more
The organisers invite proposals for twenty-minute papers and welcome all disciplines and every level of academic
career. Deadline for submissions is 8 January 2016. To submit proposals or ask any further questions,
contact us on treasuriescamb@gmail.com.
Organisers: Liesbeth Corens - Jennifer Bishop - Tom Hamilton
career. Deadline for submissions is 8 January 2016. To submit proposals or ask any further questions,
contact us on treasuriescamb@gmail.com.
Organisers: Liesbeth Corens - Jennifer Bishop - Tom Hamilton
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The aim of this two-day symposium is to draw on Alison Brown’s groundbreaking multidisciplinary studies of Florence in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the fields of political history, the history of political thought,... more
The aim of this two-day symposium is to draw on Alison Brown’s groundbreaking multidisciplinary studies of Florence in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the fields of political history, the history of political thought, and Renaissance Humanism and culture, as the
stimulus to analyse the state of Italian Renaissance studies today.
stimulus to analyse the state of Italian Renaissance studies today.
Research Interests:
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Archival bindings, especially if undecorated, have gone largely unnoticed for centuries. The way records are physically organised, however, holds fundamentals evidence for historians. In this paper, we consider the material manifestation... more
Archival bindings, especially if undecorated, have gone largely unnoticed for centuries. The way records are physically organised, however, holds fundamentals evidence for historians. In this paper, we consider the material manifestation of the changes recordkeeping underwent in Aragonese Sicily. In this context they established a complex system of books, through which the financial office of the Conservatoria regii patrimonii was able to manage a large amount of information, which was organised in different series and mobile sections. Unlike the documentary type known as ‘register’, which had a rigid physical structure, the shape and the composition of the Conservatoria books changed across the year and according to the administrative needs of the government. The innovative record-keeping system they developed, as clearly attested by the stratification of bindings, was therefore fully part of the record-making process itself. The analysis of the textual, palaeographical and material components of the records allows us to examine them in their complexity. On one hand, we were able to isolate the changes they went through over their lifespans: from individual items, they grew to units held together through quire tackets and finally to bound volumes. On the other hand, material evidence indicates that recordkeeping and bookbinding practices evolved over time. Through this exemplary case study, we wish to demonstrate how materiality and textuality come together in researching late mediaeval and early modern recordkeeping practices, and how the virtual ‘deconstruction’ of a record should invest every component.
For more information about the workshop: https://thematterof.wordpress.com/
For more information about the workshop: https://thematterof.wordpress.com/
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Nel corso della prima metà del XV secolo, in seguito al definitivo riassorbimento del Regno di Sicilia tra i domini della Corona d'Aragona e allo sviluppo di un sistema di governo a distanza dell'isola, si rese necessaria una progressiva... more
Nel corso della prima metà del XV secolo, in seguito al definitivo riassorbimento del Regno di Sicilia tra i domini della Corona d'Aragona e allo sviluppo di un sistema di governo a distanza dell'isola, si rese necessaria una progressiva definizione delle specifiche competenze delle magistrature centrali del Regno. Ne conseguì lo sviluppo di un impianto istituzionale originale, frutto del sedimentarsi di tradizioni amministrative diverse – influenze catalane e castigliane si sarebbero sommate al sostrato normanno-svevo e alle successive trasformazioni angioine – e perfettamente aderente al funzionamento e alle esigenze di una monarchia composita, quale quella aragonese. Come attestato dalla crescente produzione di scritture e dalla particolare attenzione da parte dell'autorità, nei confronti dei sistemi di elaborazione, registrazione e conservazione delle carte, le cancellerie del Regno di Sicilia assunsero un ruolo cruciale per il governo stesso dell'isola. Mediante lo studio delle pratiche documentarie sviluppate e definite dagli apparati cancellereschi quattrocenteschi dell’isola, questo intervento getta una nuova luce su quel denso network relazionale che metteva in costante comunicazione i diversi ‘centri’ politico/amministrativi e le loro rispettive periferie: da una parte, i sovrani aragonesi con i loro viceré e, dall'altra, questi ultimi con i sudditi siciliani e le universitates del regio demanio. In questo contesto, gli uffici di scrittura appaiono come uno snodo fondamentale per l'accettazione e l'esecuzione della volontà regia in Sicilia – l'uso della lictera exequtoria ne rappresenta una prova lampante – e come strumento di auto-legittimazione dei viceré, ai quali si dovevano rivolgere le comunità siciliane, per esempio, per l'approvazione dei capitula e privilegi delle città.
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Research Interests: Medieval History, Italian Studies, Papacy (Medieval Church History), Regnum Siciliae, History of Florence, and 20 moreMedieval Sicily, Recordkeeping and Archives, Medieval Crown of Aragon, Storia medievale, Renaissance Ferrara, Late Medieval History, Storia Della Sicilia, The Kingdom of Naples, Medieval Rome, Firenze, History of the Crown of Aragon, Chancery Studies, Sicilia, Napoli, Molise, Renaissance Florence, Medieval Naples, Storia del Regno di Napoli, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, and Historia De La Corona De Aragón
In occasione del trentennale della sua fondazione il Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo organizza una riflessione sulle tendenze che hanno caratterizzato gli studi sulla storia del tardo medioevo negli ultimi decenni, tanto in... more
In occasione del trentennale della sua fondazione il Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo
organizza una riflessione sulle tendenze che hanno caratterizzato gli studi sulla storia del tardo
medioevo negli ultimi decenni, tanto in Europa quanto più specificamente in Italia. Il Centro ha attivamente contribuito a questi studi, promuovendo incontri di carattere internazionale e seminari sulle fonti e pubblicando una serie di volumi di ampio respiro tematico e prospettico.
organizza una riflessione sulle tendenze che hanno caratterizzato gli studi sulla storia del tardo
medioevo negli ultimi decenni, tanto in Europa quanto più specificamente in Italia. Il Centro ha attivamente contribuito a questi studi, promuovendo incontri di carattere internazionale e seminari sulle fonti e pubblicando una serie di volumi di ampio respiro tematico e prospettico.
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CFP: GSA-Panel: "The Politics of Archives" Washington, D.C. (October 1-4, 2015) The important political role of archives in a democratic society is yet to be fully recognized. When seen as only having to do with the past rather than... more
CFP: GSA-Panel: "The Politics of Archives"
Washington, D.C. (October 1-4, 2015)
The important political role of archives in a democratic society is yet to be fully recognized. When seen as only having to do with the past rather than also with the present and the future, the archives continuum remains misunderstood. This panel (or series of panels) seeks theoretical and “case-studies” contributions exploring the critical functioning of the future of “the archive” in its largest understanding that would include but is not limited to (secret and non-secret) political archives, colonial archives, corporate archives, imaginary and counter archives, digital archive projects, private and public archives, literary and media archives pertaining to the German-speaking context. How have these archives shaped and how are they shaping an evolving understanding of Germany’s history and new imagination of its future in the age of globalization?
Paper topics might include:
• Theorizing the archive: what are the logics of archival power? how can we think about the relationship between archives and memory, archives and media theory or archives and psychoanalysis? (Foucault, Bloch, Derrida, La Capra, Appadurai, Assmann)
• Corporate archives: coming to terms with the past, shaping their image for a global future: Dr. Oetker, Tengelmann, Degussa, VW, Deutsche Bank; politics and policies of public relations and selling in different periods
• Imaginary and counter archives: invented objectives and narratives created by artists or writers that shed new light on the future of a past
• Entangled histories and secret archives: Germans in Eastern and East Central Europe (secret) archives; Bundesarchiv; US, Soviet, British and French intelligence archives on Germany
• The role and status of the archive in the formation of the nation state and a trans- or postnational consciousness: what are the practices of collecting in different major historical periods; what is the architectural nature of these archives; erasure, destruction and rescue of archives; exile archives; migration as critical intervention in archivization; relation between monuments and archive
• Problematizing digital archives; authorship and disputes of belonging; rewriting historical archives through new digital humanities projects, fragility of digital archives.
• Public versus private archives: critical tensions or competition between family or community archives (diaries, family photo albums, personal libraries) and larger archives: What is the role of the family archive in cultural memory and national history?
• Colonial archives: function of these archives; the silencing of native voices; politics of returning human remains and material collections from the German colonial period in archives and medical collections (Charité); relation of colonial archives to holocaust and other archives
• Literary Archives: found objects and the serendipity of archives
• The New Aesthetic: Google and other surveillance photos (James Bridle)
Please submit your abstracts (300-500 words maximum) as well as a short CV (academic background and relevant publications) to Bettina Brandt [log in to unmask] and Valentina Glajar [log in to unmask] by January 19, 2015.
Washington, D.C. (October 1-4, 2015)
The important political role of archives in a democratic society is yet to be fully recognized. When seen as only having to do with the past rather than also with the present and the future, the archives continuum remains misunderstood. This panel (or series of panels) seeks theoretical and “case-studies” contributions exploring the critical functioning of the future of “the archive” in its largest understanding that would include but is not limited to (secret and non-secret) political archives, colonial archives, corporate archives, imaginary and counter archives, digital archive projects, private and public archives, literary and media archives pertaining to the German-speaking context. How have these archives shaped and how are they shaping an evolving understanding of Germany’s history and new imagination of its future in the age of globalization?
Paper topics might include:
• Theorizing the archive: what are the logics of archival power? how can we think about the relationship between archives and memory, archives and media theory or archives and psychoanalysis? (Foucault, Bloch, Derrida, La Capra, Appadurai, Assmann)
• Corporate archives: coming to terms with the past, shaping their image for a global future: Dr. Oetker, Tengelmann, Degussa, VW, Deutsche Bank; politics and policies of public relations and selling in different periods
• Imaginary and counter archives: invented objectives and narratives created by artists or writers that shed new light on the future of a past
• Entangled histories and secret archives: Germans in Eastern and East Central Europe (secret) archives; Bundesarchiv; US, Soviet, British and French intelligence archives on Germany
• The role and status of the archive in the formation of the nation state and a trans- or postnational consciousness: what are the practices of collecting in different major historical periods; what is the architectural nature of these archives; erasure, destruction and rescue of archives; exile archives; migration as critical intervention in archivization; relation between monuments and archive
• Problematizing digital archives; authorship and disputes of belonging; rewriting historical archives through new digital humanities projects, fragility of digital archives.
• Public versus private archives: critical tensions or competition between family or community archives (diaries, family photo albums, personal libraries) and larger archives: What is the role of the family archive in cultural memory and national history?
• Colonial archives: function of these archives; the silencing of native voices; politics of returning human remains and material collections from the German colonial period in archives and medical collections (Charité); relation of colonial archives to holocaust and other archives
• Literary Archives: found objects and the serendipity of archives
• The New Aesthetic: Google and other surveillance photos (James Bridle)
Please submit your abstracts (300-500 words maximum) as well as a short CV (academic background and relevant publications) to Bettina Brandt [log in to unmask] and Valentina Glajar [log in to unmask] by January 19, 2015.
Research Interests:
• The first major study of Renaissance diplomacy in 60 years • Situates and explains Renaissance Italian political history and culture in a European context • Considers how Italian diplomacy led to the spread of humanism and new modes of... more
• The first major study of Renaissance diplomacy in 60 years
• Situates and explains Renaissance Italian political history and culture in a European context
• Considers how Italian diplomacy led to the spread of humanism and new modes of political thinking throughout Europe
• Offers a multidisciplinary approach: political and institutional, cognitive and linguistic, material and spatial
• Employs an unparalleled richness of literary, visual, and legal sources
• Situates and explains Renaissance Italian political history and culture in a European context
• Considers how Italian diplomacy led to the spread of humanism and new modes of political thinking throughout Europe
• Offers a multidisciplinary approach: political and institutional, cognitive and linguistic, material and spatial
• Employs an unparalleled richness of literary, visual, and legal sources
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The conference is inspired by recent research conducted on trade tariffs, which has brought to light a type of document produced by the Venetians and largely ignored until today, and which has also led to their publication (in a book... more
The conference is inspired by recent research conducted on trade tariffs, which has brought to light a type
of document produced by the Venetians and largely ignored until today, and which has also led to their publication (in a book edited by Alessio Sopracasa). The conference shall specifically examine the Venetian documents and more generally those produced in the Mediterranean basin, considering such documents as being an expression, sign and instrument of economic, political and cultural exchange, especially between the 14th and 16th centuries. An assessment of the overall balances in the area shall be flanked by a study of the documents that concretely facilitated both economic and trade relations amongst the different areas. The assessment will naturally cover a number of case studies that are interconnected and provide sufficiently broad insight of the links crossing and connecting the Mediterranean basin’s economic, political and
cultural systems.
Thursday 10 September, 15.00h
Presentazione
• Gherardo Ortalli (Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti; Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
• Jean-Claude Cheynet (Université de Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV)
• Gerassimos Pagratis (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Keynote
"Jerusalem Commercial and Colonial Expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Later Middle Ages"
• David Jacoby (The Hebrew University)
I. Il Mediterraneo tra cultura marinaresca e cultura mercantile
"Lo spazio mediterraneo e l’organizzazione della navigazione e del commercio"
• Jean-Claude Hocquet (Université Charles de Gaulle – Lille III CNRS – Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
"Per un buon uso del Mediterraneo: portolani, mappe, isolari, testi nautici (sec. XIII-XV)"
• Piero Falchetta (Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana)
Friday 11 September, 9.30h
II. Le pratiche documentarie: le fonti
"Preserving the Word in Latin and Islamic Notarial Cultures"
• Francisco Apellániz (Université de Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne
"Le basi normative dell’attività commerciale: le pattuizioni"
• Ermanno Orlando (Università degli Studi di Verona)
"Le condizioni della presenza mercantile veneziana: le tariffe (XV-XVI sec.)"
• Alessio Sopracasa (King’s College London; Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, UMR 8167– Orient et Méditerranée (CNRS, Parigi))
"Venetian Commerce as Reflected in the “Registers Concerning Foreign States” (Düvel-i ecnebiye defterleri)"
• Suraiya Faroqhi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
Friday 11 September, 14.30h
III. Attraverso il Mediterraneo, e oltre
"Trans-Mediterranean Embargoes: Comparing Venetian and Mamluk Maritime Trade Regimes in the Second Half of the 14th Century"
• Georg Christ (The University of Manchester, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures)
"Life on Board Venetian Ships: the Evidence of Renaissance Travelogues"
• Benjamin Arbel (Tel Aviv University)
"Oltre il Mediterraneo orientale: reti commerciali di mercanti veneziani fra Tana e Mar Caspio"
• Angeliki Tzavara (Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, UMR 8167– Orient et Méditerranée (CNRS, Parigi); Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini di Venezia)
"Eastern Mediterranean Networks (1205-1533): a Documentary Perspective"
• Andrea Nanetti (Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media)
Saturday 12 September, 9.30h
IV. Particolarità e interconnessioni
"Venetian Tana. Economic Life and Social Relations: Aftermath of the Great Crisis of the Mid-14th Century"
• Sergei Karpov (Moscow State University)
"Aristocrazia d’affari e iniziativa greca nel mondo bizantino fra XIV e XV secolo"
• Thierry Ganchou (Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, UMR 8167– Orient et Méditerranée (CNRS, Parigi))
"Commercio marittimo e metodi di documentazione nelle isole veneziane del Mar Ionio (XV-XVI sec.)"
• Gerassimos Pagratis (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)
"Archival Evidence in the Study of Cross-cultural Artistic Connections"
• Deborah Howard (University of Cambridge, Department of History of Art)
of document produced by the Venetians and largely ignored until today, and which has also led to their publication (in a book edited by Alessio Sopracasa). The conference shall specifically examine the Venetian documents and more generally those produced in the Mediterranean basin, considering such documents as being an expression, sign and instrument of economic, political and cultural exchange, especially between the 14th and 16th centuries. An assessment of the overall balances in the area shall be flanked by a study of the documents that concretely facilitated both economic and trade relations amongst the different areas. The assessment will naturally cover a number of case studies that are interconnected and provide sufficiently broad insight of the links crossing and connecting the Mediterranean basin’s economic, political and
cultural systems.
Thursday 10 September, 15.00h
Presentazione
• Gherardo Ortalli (Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti; Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
• Jean-Claude Cheynet (Université de Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV)
• Gerassimos Pagratis (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Keynote
"Jerusalem Commercial and Colonial Expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Later Middle Ages"
• David Jacoby (The Hebrew University)
I. Il Mediterraneo tra cultura marinaresca e cultura mercantile
"Lo spazio mediterraneo e l’organizzazione della navigazione e del commercio"
• Jean-Claude Hocquet (Université Charles de Gaulle – Lille III CNRS – Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
"Per un buon uso del Mediterraneo: portolani, mappe, isolari, testi nautici (sec. XIII-XV)"
• Piero Falchetta (Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana)
Friday 11 September, 9.30h
II. Le pratiche documentarie: le fonti
"Preserving the Word in Latin and Islamic Notarial Cultures"
• Francisco Apellániz (Université de Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne
"Le basi normative dell’attività commerciale: le pattuizioni"
• Ermanno Orlando (Università degli Studi di Verona)
"Le condizioni della presenza mercantile veneziana: le tariffe (XV-XVI sec.)"
• Alessio Sopracasa (King’s College London; Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, UMR 8167– Orient et Méditerranée (CNRS, Parigi))
"Venetian Commerce as Reflected in the “Registers Concerning Foreign States” (Düvel-i ecnebiye defterleri)"
• Suraiya Faroqhi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
Friday 11 September, 14.30h
III. Attraverso il Mediterraneo, e oltre
"Trans-Mediterranean Embargoes: Comparing Venetian and Mamluk Maritime Trade Regimes in the Second Half of the 14th Century"
• Georg Christ (The University of Manchester, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures)
"Life on Board Venetian Ships: the Evidence of Renaissance Travelogues"
• Benjamin Arbel (Tel Aviv University)
"Oltre il Mediterraneo orientale: reti commerciali di mercanti veneziani fra Tana e Mar Caspio"
• Angeliki Tzavara (Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, UMR 8167– Orient et Méditerranée (CNRS, Parigi); Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Postbizantini di Venezia)
"Eastern Mediterranean Networks (1205-1533): a Documentary Perspective"
• Andrea Nanetti (Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media)
Saturday 12 September, 9.30h
IV. Particolarità e interconnessioni
"Venetian Tana. Economic Life and Social Relations: Aftermath of the Great Crisis of the Mid-14th Century"
• Sergei Karpov (Moscow State University)
"Aristocrazia d’affari e iniziativa greca nel mondo bizantino fra XIV e XV secolo"
• Thierry Ganchou (Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, UMR 8167– Orient et Méditerranée (CNRS, Parigi))
"Commercio marittimo e metodi di documentazione nelle isole veneziane del Mar Ionio (XV-XVI sec.)"
• Gerassimos Pagratis (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)
"Archival Evidence in the Study of Cross-cultural Artistic Connections"
• Deborah Howard (University of Cambridge, Department of History of Art)
Research Interests: Economic History, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Byzantine Studies, Byzantine History, and 11 moreRecordkeeping and Archives, Oriental Studies, Storia medievale, Late Medieval History, Venice, Venice and the Veneto, Venezia, History of Venice, Storia economica, Storia moderna, and Venezia E Terraferma Veneta (XV-XVIII)
The Medici Archive Project is offering a new online educational program in Italian paleography and archival studies for the A.Y. 2015 – 2016. The course is comprised of two components: an online course, which is divided into three... more
The Medici Archive Project is offering a new online educational program in Italian paleography and archival studies for the A.Y. 2015 – 2016. The course is comprised of two components: an online course, which is divided into three modules, and an onsite seminar in Florence.
Reflecting increased interest from scholars at every stage of their careers, but especially the needs of students attempting archival research in Italy for the first time, our new modular program will provide students with both a firm introduction to working in Italian archives and the confidence to read, understand, and use archival material as an integral part of their research.
The current offer is a redesign and expansion of our previous educational courses. For the first time, students can now pick and choose from diverse modules suited to their interests. Moreover, students will be taught using our new online teaching tool developed with funding from the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation that allows students to collaborate online in the transcription of high quality digital reproductions of archival documents. The Fall semester will conclude with a standalone two-week seminar in Florence.
The syllabus can be found at: www.medici.org/educational-programs
Questions and queries should be addressed to education@medici.org
Some financial aid may be available to successful applicants undertaking most or all of the four modules.
Reflecting increased interest from scholars at every stage of their careers, but especially the needs of students attempting archival research in Italy for the first time, our new modular program will provide students with both a firm introduction to working in Italian archives and the confidence to read, understand, and use archival material as an integral part of their research.
The current offer is a redesign and expansion of our previous educational courses. For the first time, students can now pick and choose from diverse modules suited to their interests. Moreover, students will be taught using our new online teaching tool developed with funding from the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation that allows students to collaborate online in the transcription of high quality digital reproductions of archival documents. The Fall semester will conclude with a standalone two-week seminar in Florence.
The syllabus can be found at: www.medici.org/educational-programs
Questions and queries should be addressed to education@medici.org
Some financial aid may be available to successful applicants undertaking most or all of the four modules.
Research Interests:
"Archives – Chanceries – Collections" is the only archival journal in Poland, that is published by a university, and not by an archive or a society of archivists. The university character obliges. We are not closed for texts presenting... more
"Archives – Chanceries – Collections" is the only archival journal in Poland, that is published by a university, and not by an archive or a society of archivists. The university character obliges. We are not closed for texts presenting practical and current problems of archival science, but we are especially open for basic research. A characteristic of our periodical is wide presence of archival theory or general reflection about the archival domain. This reflection explains phenomena of past and present, but also touches questions of future of archival science.
Please note that you can change language by clicking the right menu "Jezyk/Language"
Please note that you can change language by clicking the right menu "Jezyk/Language"
Research Interests: History, Modern History, Archival Studies, Medieval History, Early Modern History, and 11 moreContemporary History, Archival science, Archives, History of Archives, Digital Archives, Recordkeeping and Archives, Archival Sciences, Archival Theory, Archivos, Archivística, and Library and Archival Science
I-CHORA is a well-established series of conferences dedicated to cross-disciplinary explorations of the history of records and archives. I-CHORA 7 will be held in Amsterdam, from July 29th to 31st, 2015; it will be hosted by the... more
I-CHORA is a well-established series of conferences dedicated to cross-disciplinary explorations of the history of records and archives.
I-CHORA 7 will be held in Amsterdam, from July 29th to 31st, 2015; it will be hosted by the University of Amsterdam, Department of Media Studies, and the Amsterdam School for Heritage and Memory Studies.
The conference will take place at the site of the Amsterdam City Archives, in the De Bazel Conference Centre, an impressive art deco building in the heart of the old city.
The theme of I-CHORA 7 is Engaging with Archives and Records: Histories and Theories. The Call for Papers invited a wide range of scholars and practitioners (including social historians, cultural theorists, communication and media specialists, archivists, librarians, and other information professionals) to reflect on the following topics:
• hidden (and not so hidden) histories of particular recordmaking and recordkeeping cultures and communities
• the making/unmaking/remaking of records in times of conflict and war
• silences in the records
• communities and diasporas of records
• histories of archival concepts, functions, and methods through time andacross disciplines
• user perspectives on the archive through time and across disciplines
• theorizing the history of archives in the wake of the archival turn
• historicizing and theorizing the archive and archives in the digital world
From documentary practices in 15th-century Sicily to the archival impulse in contemporary art, the programme for I-CHORA 7 provides a forum for lively debates about the history and future of archives. We welcome you to enjoy the wide-ranging topics and perspectives of this year’s presentations!
I-CHORA 7 offers a unique opportunity for scholars and practitioners to come together in an inspiring city and venue to engage with histories and theories of records and archives.
I-CHORA 7 will be held in Amsterdam, from July 29th to 31st, 2015; it will be hosted by the University of Amsterdam, Department of Media Studies, and the Amsterdam School for Heritage and Memory Studies.
The conference will take place at the site of the Amsterdam City Archives, in the De Bazel Conference Centre, an impressive art deco building in the heart of the old city.
The theme of I-CHORA 7 is Engaging with Archives and Records: Histories and Theories. The Call for Papers invited a wide range of scholars and practitioners (including social historians, cultural theorists, communication and media specialists, archivists, librarians, and other information professionals) to reflect on the following topics:
• hidden (and not so hidden) histories of particular recordmaking and recordkeeping cultures and communities
• the making/unmaking/remaking of records in times of conflict and war
• silences in the records
• communities and diasporas of records
• histories of archival concepts, functions, and methods through time andacross disciplines
• user perspectives on the archive through time and across disciplines
• theorizing the history of archives in the wake of the archival turn
• historicizing and theorizing the archive and archives in the digital world
From documentary practices in 15th-century Sicily to the archival impulse in contemporary art, the programme for I-CHORA 7 provides a forum for lively debates about the history and future of archives. We welcome you to enjoy the wide-ranging topics and perspectives of this year’s presentations!
I-CHORA 7 offers a unique opportunity for scholars and practitioners to come together in an inspiring city and venue to engage with histories and theories of records and archives.
Research Interests: Archival Studies, Medieval History, Renaissance Studies, History Of Information, History of Archives, and 10 moreMedieval Sicily, Recordkeeping and Archives, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Medieval Crown of Aragon, Memory and materiality, Sicily, Historia Medieval, Archival history, Binding, and Book Binding
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME Tuesday, 28th July 2015 2:00–4:00 pm Registration Wednesday, 29th July 2015 8:00–9:00 am Registration 9:00–9:30 am Welcome and opening remarks 9:30–10:30 am — FEATURED TALK #1 Elizabeth Shepherd... more
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Tuesday, 28th July 2015
2:00–4:00 pm
Registration
Wednesday, 29th July 2015
8:00–9:00 am
Registration
9:00–9:30 am
Welcome and opening remarks
9:30–10:30 am — FEATURED TALK #1
Elizabeth Shepherd (University College London)
“Hidden Voices in the Archives: Women Archivists in Early 20th-Century England”
10:30–11:00 am
Coffee break
11:00–12:30 pm — SESSION 1
Forging the Real/Filling the Gaps
Valerie Johnson (National Archives of the UK) & David Thomas (University of Northumbria)
“William Shakespeare and the Silence of the Archive”
Jennifer Douglas (University of British Columbia)
“A History of Postmortem Images and the Role of Recordkeeping in Grieving”
Anne Gilliland (University of California Los Angeles)
“Imaginings and Reinterpretations: The Records of Goli Otok, ‘Tito’s Gulag’”
12.30–2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00–3:30 pm — SESSION 2
Secrecy and Sociability
Megan Barford (University of Cambridge)
“Edward Belcher and the Archival Event: Record Keeping in the Hydrographic Office, c.1830-1850”
Charles Jeurgens (University of Leiden)
“The Bumpy Road to Transparency: Access and Secrecy in 19th-Century Records Management in the Dutch East Indies”
Elizabeth Mullins (University College Dublin)
“The Storm and the Silence: Cultures of Recordkeeping among Religious Communities in 20th Century Ireland”
3:30–3:45 pm
Coffee break
3:45–4:45 pm — FEATURED TALK #2
Eric Ketelaar (University of Amsterdam)
“Researching Archival Consciousness”
5:30–7:30pm
Opening reception
Thursday, 30th July 2015
9:00–10:00 am— FEATURED TALK #3
Jeanette Bastian (Simmons College)
“Moving the Margins to the Middle: Reconciling ‘the Archive’ with the Archives”
10:00–10:30 am
Coffee break
10:30–12:00 pm — SESSION 3
Archival Collisions/Adaptations
Gholamhossein Nezami (Archive and Library of Boushehr Province, Iran)
“Different and Contradictory Attempts of Iranian Scholars and Government in the Foundation of National Archive (1953–1970)”
Naya Sucha-xaya (University College London)
“History and Value Judgement: Recordkeeping History and Its Impact on Archives Awareness in Thailand”
Paul Lihoma (National Archives of Malawi)
“Literacy in Oral Cultures: History and Development of Information and Record Keeping in Predominantly Oral Malawi“
12:00–1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30–3:00 pm — SESSION 4
Records in/after Conflict
Andrea Guidi (Birkbeck, University of London)
“Muster Rolls, Lists and Annotations: Practical Military Records Relating to the Last Florentine Ordinances and Militia, from Machiavelli to the Fall of the Republic”
Christophe Martens (Brussels State Archives)
“The Great War and the Quest for Archives in Belgium”
Ellen van der Waerden (University of Leiden)
“The Ultimate Reconstruction? The ‘War Reports May 1940’ Collection Perceived from an Archival Perspective”
3:00–3:30 pm
Coffee break
3:30–5:00 pm — SESSION 5
Archives, Communities, and Social Justice
Magdalena Wisniewska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland)
“History of Community Archiving in Poland”
Peter Horsman & Petra Links (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam)
“The Gacaca Archive: Preserving the Memory of Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda”
Melanie Delva (Anglican Diocese of New Westminster and Provincial Synod of BC and Yukon) & Melissa Adams (University College London)
“Archival Ethics and Indigenous Justice: Conflict or Coexistence?”
5:15–7:00 pm
Tour of Amsterdam City Archives/Other Social Events
8:00 pm
Conference dinner
Friday, 31st July 2015
9:00–10:30 am — SESSION 6
Re-mediating/Re-making Archives
Sian Vaughan (Birmingham City University, UK)
“Reflecting on Practice: Artists’ Experiences in the Archives”
Stefano Gardini (University of Genoa)
“The Use and Reuse of Documents by Chancellors, Archivists and Government Members in an Early Modern Republican State: Genoa’s ‘Giunta dei Confini’ and Its Archives”
Andrea Desolei (University of Padua)
“The ‘Napoleonic Archives’. Origins and Evolution of the ‘Protocollo-Titolario’ System in Northern Italy Between Late 18th and Early 19th Century“
10:30–11:00 am
Coffee break
11:00–12.30 pm — SESSION 7
Materiality and Meaning in Records
Costanza Caraffa (Max-Planck-Institut, Florence)
“Photographs as Records – Records on Photographs: Photo Archives, Art History and the Material Turn”
Alessandro Silvestri (Birkbeck, University of London) & Anna Gialdini (Ligatus Research Centre, University of London)
“Organizing and Binding Records in 15th-Century Sicily: A Case Study in the Material History of Archives”
Jonathan Lainey (Library and Archives Canada)
“Weaving Memories: Wampum Belts and Aboriginal Recordkeeping”
12:30–1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30–3:00 pm — SESSION 8
Models, Metaphors, and Frameworks
Jonathan Furner (University of California Los Angeles)
“‘Records in Context’ in Context: A Brief History of Archival Data Modeling”
Marlene Manoff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Humanities Library)
“Framing the Archive as Techno-Cultural Construct”
Juan Ilerbaig (University of Toronto)
“Of Sediments and Skeletons: History and Metaphor in the Conceptual System of Archival Theory”
3:00–3:15 pm
Coffee break
3:15–4:15 pm — FEATURED TALK #4
Geoffrey Yeo (University College London)
“Posner’s Archives in the Ancient World Revisited: A New Look at Some Old Records”
4:15–4:45 pm
Closing remarks
Tuesday, 28th July 2015
2:00–4:00 pm
Registration
Wednesday, 29th July 2015
8:00–9:00 am
Registration
9:00–9:30 am
Welcome and opening remarks
9:30–10:30 am — FEATURED TALK #1
Elizabeth Shepherd (University College London)
“Hidden Voices in the Archives: Women Archivists in Early 20th-Century England”
10:30–11:00 am
Coffee break
11:00–12:30 pm — SESSION 1
Forging the Real/Filling the Gaps
Valerie Johnson (National Archives of the UK) & David Thomas (University of Northumbria)
“William Shakespeare and the Silence of the Archive”
Jennifer Douglas (University of British Columbia)
“A History of Postmortem Images and the Role of Recordkeeping in Grieving”
Anne Gilliland (University of California Los Angeles)
“Imaginings and Reinterpretations: The Records of Goli Otok, ‘Tito’s Gulag’”
12.30–2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00–3:30 pm — SESSION 2
Secrecy and Sociability
Megan Barford (University of Cambridge)
“Edward Belcher and the Archival Event: Record Keeping in the Hydrographic Office, c.1830-1850”
Charles Jeurgens (University of Leiden)
“The Bumpy Road to Transparency: Access and Secrecy in 19th-Century Records Management in the Dutch East Indies”
Elizabeth Mullins (University College Dublin)
“The Storm and the Silence: Cultures of Recordkeeping among Religious Communities in 20th Century Ireland”
3:30–3:45 pm
Coffee break
3:45–4:45 pm — FEATURED TALK #2
Eric Ketelaar (University of Amsterdam)
“Researching Archival Consciousness”
5:30–7:30pm
Opening reception
Thursday, 30th July 2015
9:00–10:00 am— FEATURED TALK #3
Jeanette Bastian (Simmons College)
“Moving the Margins to the Middle: Reconciling ‘the Archive’ with the Archives”
10:00–10:30 am
Coffee break
10:30–12:00 pm — SESSION 3
Archival Collisions/Adaptations
Gholamhossein Nezami (Archive and Library of Boushehr Province, Iran)
“Different and Contradictory Attempts of Iranian Scholars and Government in the Foundation of National Archive (1953–1970)”
Naya Sucha-xaya (University College London)
“History and Value Judgement: Recordkeeping History and Its Impact on Archives Awareness in Thailand”
Paul Lihoma (National Archives of Malawi)
“Literacy in Oral Cultures: History and Development of Information and Record Keeping in Predominantly Oral Malawi“
12:00–1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30–3:00 pm — SESSION 4
Records in/after Conflict
Andrea Guidi (Birkbeck, University of London)
“Muster Rolls, Lists and Annotations: Practical Military Records Relating to the Last Florentine Ordinances and Militia, from Machiavelli to the Fall of the Republic”
Christophe Martens (Brussels State Archives)
“The Great War and the Quest for Archives in Belgium”
Ellen van der Waerden (University of Leiden)
“The Ultimate Reconstruction? The ‘War Reports May 1940’ Collection Perceived from an Archival Perspective”
3:00–3:30 pm
Coffee break
3:30–5:00 pm — SESSION 5
Archives, Communities, and Social Justice
Magdalena Wisniewska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland)
“History of Community Archiving in Poland”
Peter Horsman & Petra Links (Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam)
“The Gacaca Archive: Preserving the Memory of Post-Genocide Justice and Reconciliation in Rwanda”
Melanie Delva (Anglican Diocese of New Westminster and Provincial Synod of BC and Yukon) & Melissa Adams (University College London)
“Archival Ethics and Indigenous Justice: Conflict or Coexistence?”
5:15–7:00 pm
Tour of Amsterdam City Archives/Other Social Events
8:00 pm
Conference dinner
Friday, 31st July 2015
9:00–10:30 am — SESSION 6
Re-mediating/Re-making Archives
Sian Vaughan (Birmingham City University, UK)
“Reflecting on Practice: Artists’ Experiences in the Archives”
Stefano Gardini (University of Genoa)
“The Use and Reuse of Documents by Chancellors, Archivists and Government Members in an Early Modern Republican State: Genoa’s ‘Giunta dei Confini’ and Its Archives”
Andrea Desolei (University of Padua)
“The ‘Napoleonic Archives’. Origins and Evolution of the ‘Protocollo-Titolario’ System in Northern Italy Between Late 18th and Early 19th Century“
10:30–11:00 am
Coffee break
11:00–12.30 pm — SESSION 7
Materiality and Meaning in Records
Costanza Caraffa (Max-Planck-Institut, Florence)
“Photographs as Records – Records on Photographs: Photo Archives, Art History and the Material Turn”
Alessandro Silvestri (Birkbeck, University of London) & Anna Gialdini (Ligatus Research Centre, University of London)
“Organizing and Binding Records in 15th-Century Sicily: A Case Study in the Material History of Archives”
Jonathan Lainey (Library and Archives Canada)
“Weaving Memories: Wampum Belts and Aboriginal Recordkeeping”
12:30–1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30–3:00 pm — SESSION 8
Models, Metaphors, and Frameworks
Jonathan Furner (University of California Los Angeles)
“‘Records in Context’ in Context: A Brief History of Archival Data Modeling”
Marlene Manoff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Humanities Library)
“Framing the Archive as Techno-Cultural Construct”
Juan Ilerbaig (University of Toronto)
“Of Sediments and Skeletons: History and Metaphor in the Conceptual System of Archival Theory”
3:00–3:15 pm
Coffee break
3:15–4:15 pm — FEATURED TALK #4
Geoffrey Yeo (University College London)
“Posner’s Archives in the Ancient World Revisited: A New Look at Some Old Records”
4:15–4:45 pm
Closing remarks
Research Interests: Archival Studies, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Records Management, Contemporary History, and 13 moreArchives, Communication Of Memory In Archives, Libraries And Museums, History of Archives, Recordkeeping and Archives, Archives and Records Managment, Archivistics, Archivística, Archivistica, Archivistique, Archivistica y Gestion Documental, Library and Archival Science, Recordkeeping and Archiving, and Library and Archival Research methods
The public discussion of foreign policy and the preservation of ‘state secrets’ became important factors in politics during the early modern period. Building on recent work on ‘public sphere’ politics, propaganda and censorship, the... more
The public discussion of foreign policy and the preservation of ‘state secrets’ became important factors in politics during the early modern period. Building on recent work on ‘public sphere’ politics, propaganda and censorship, the conference seeks to answer a number of questions:
How effective were diplomats’ attempts to gather intelligence and conceal the details of their negotiations, and what role did arguments about publicity and ‘public opinion’ play in diplomacy and foreign policy? What role did secrecy and the sharing of information have on court politics and the range of counsel available to monarchs and politicians? How did early modern governments respond to the growing public interest in politics and foreign affairs? How effective were attempts to manage information through propaganda, selective leaking or the suppression of sensitive policies and negotiations? What do these activities tell us about cultural attitudes towards information and the public?
We welcome abstracts on all aspects of these topics. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
· State secrets, the Arcana Imperii and the management of information.
· The ‘public sphere’ and the discussion of foreign policy.
· Counsel and the formation of foreign policy.
· Diplomacy, intelligence-gathering and spying.
· Xenophobia and attitudes towards foreign countries.
· ‘Secret histories’ and the interpretation of politics.
Postgraduate and postdoctoral students are welcome to apply for presentations.
Please send abstracts of 200-300 words to d.coast@bathspa.ac.uk for papers no longer than 20 minutes by Friday 17th April 2015.
How effective were diplomats’ attempts to gather intelligence and conceal the details of their negotiations, and what role did arguments about publicity and ‘public opinion’ play in diplomacy and foreign policy? What role did secrecy and the sharing of information have on court politics and the range of counsel available to monarchs and politicians? How did early modern governments respond to the growing public interest in politics and foreign affairs? How effective were attempts to manage information through propaganda, selective leaking or the suppression of sensitive policies and negotiations? What do these activities tell us about cultural attitudes towards information and the public?
We welcome abstracts on all aspects of these topics. Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
· State secrets, the Arcana Imperii and the management of information.
· The ‘public sphere’ and the discussion of foreign policy.
· Counsel and the formation of foreign policy.
· Diplomacy, intelligence-gathering and spying.
· Xenophobia and attitudes towards foreign countries.
· ‘Secret histories’ and the interpretation of politics.
Postgraduate and postdoctoral students are welcome to apply for presentations.
Please send abstracts of 200-300 words to d.coast@bathspa.ac.uk for papers no longer than 20 minutes by Friday 17th April 2015.
Research Interests:
SPEAKERS AND TOPICS INCLUDE Paul Cartledge (Cambridge University): Not Just Voting but Being Counted: the cases of Ancient Greece Valentina Arena (University College London): Roman Republican reflections on electoral practices... more
SPEAKERS AND TOPICS INCLUDE
Paul Cartledge (Cambridge University): Not Just Voting but Being Counted: the cases of Ancient Greece
Valentina Arena (University College London): Roman Republican reflections on electoral practices
Cristina La Rocca (Università di Padova): Cultures of unanimity in Carolingian Councils
Barbara Bombi (University of Kent): Papal elections in the canonistic tradition from Gratian to John XXII
Andrea Guidi (Birkbeck): “Conforme al vivere civile et politico”: Machiavelli’s newly discovered proposal for electoral reform in 1512
Derek Hirst (Washington University in St Louis): Some Learning Curves in Voting in Seventeenth-Century England
Wyger Velema (Universiteit van Amsterdam): Dead and Buried after the Elections? Voting and Citizenship in the Batavian Revolution
10.00-19.00, Friday 26 June 2015
S8.08, Strand Building
King’s College London
Strand Campus WC2R 2LS
Please register before 24 June 2015
by sending an email to
Dr Serena Ferente
serena.ferente@kcl.ac.uk
Paul Cartledge (Cambridge University): Not Just Voting but Being Counted: the cases of Ancient Greece
Valentina Arena (University College London): Roman Republican reflections on electoral practices
Cristina La Rocca (Università di Padova): Cultures of unanimity in Carolingian Councils
Barbara Bombi (University of Kent): Papal elections in the canonistic tradition from Gratian to John XXII
Andrea Guidi (Birkbeck): “Conforme al vivere civile et politico”: Machiavelli’s newly discovered proposal for electoral reform in 1512
Derek Hirst (Washington University in St Louis): Some Learning Curves in Voting in Seventeenth-Century England
Wyger Velema (Universiteit van Amsterdam): Dead and Buried after the Elections? Voting and Citizenship in the Batavian Revolution
10.00-19.00, Friday 26 June 2015
S8.08, Strand Building
King’s College London
Strand Campus WC2R 2LS
Please register before 24 June 2015
by sending an email to
Dr Serena Ferente
serena.ferente@kcl.ac.uk
Research Interests: Ancient History, European History, European Studies, Medieval History, Early Modern History, and 11 moreEarly Modern England, Roman Republic, History of Florence, Electoral Systems, Carolingian Studies, Ancient Greek History, Machiavelli, Electoral Studies, Papal History, Voting Systems, and Batavia
Research Interests:
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Over the last two decades, cartularies have been seen as an object of study in themselves, not only for the wealth of information they provide or for the problems of authenticity, but as organized 'deposits' of memory and of control of... more
Over the last two decades, cartularies have been seen as an object of study in themselves, not only for the wealth of information they provide or for the problems of authenticity, but as organized 'deposits' of memory and of control of property. This meeting aims at creating an opportunity for all those involved in Medieval cartularies to discuss concrete experiences of studying and editing European cartularies from the 12th-13th centuries.
Without dismissing a global overview of this phenomenon, we aim at approaching the topic through specific case studies and by taking into account the different ways in which medieval institutions built their own memory. Therefore, it is also essential to pay attention to non-diplomatic texts copied in or written in close relation to the cartularies (e.g. hagiography or historiography), and to the codices in terms of paleography,
codicology and decoration.
Researchers from different areas of knowledge are invited to present papers on topics focusing on the following themes:
1. Memory, archives and cartularies: models and aims in the organization of corpora.
2. From the archive to the codex: the selection, organization and use / re-use of documents;
3. Cartularies and non-diplomatic texts: hagiography, historiography, annals.
4. Visual Culture: decorations, seals and signa.
5. Analyzing and editing: experiences, projects, databases.
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The conference will be organized in plenary sessions with keynote speakers and parallel sessions with papers.
• Working languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English, French and Italian.
• Papers presentations: 20 minutes.
The conference will be organized in plenary sessions with keynote speakers and parallel sessions with papers.
• Working languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English, French and Italian.
• Papers presentations: 20 minutes
We welcome:
• individual proposals for a 20-minute paper (ca. 500 words);
• joint proposals for thematic panels consisting of 3 papers (ca. 350 words per paper).
*
Please include the following information with your proposal:
• the full title of your paper / of your panel and respective papers;
• an abstract (ca. 500 words per paper), eventually with a short list of bibliographical references;
• a short bio blurb (ca. 200 words).
*
Please note that:
• All paper proposals will be peer-reviewed;
• Deadline for proposals: February 28, 2015;
• Proposals should be submitted by e-mail in MS Word or PDF format to medievalcartularies@letras.ulisboa.pt, with the subject header: Abstract proposal.
*
Registration
• Registration for paper presentation speakers: 80 Euros (two lunches included).
• Registration without paper presentation (entitled to conference materials and certificate of attendance): 15 Euros.
• Student fee: 10 Euros.
• All speakers are responsible for their own travel arrangements and accommodation; relevant information about hotels will be provided later.
• Accepted speakers should pay the registration fee after notification of acceptance. Deadlines and methods of payment will be given later.
Invited speakers
Ana Suárez González (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Anna Bellettini (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Julio Escalona Monge (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Wendy Davies (University College of London)
José Manuel Díaz de Bustamante (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Fernando López Alsina (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
José Antonio Fernández Flórez (Universidad de Burgos)
José Manuel Ruiz Asencio (Universidad de Valladolid)
Marta Herrero de la Fuente (Universidad de Valladolid)
Miguel Calleja Puerta (Universidad de Oviedo)
Eloísa Ramírez Vaquero (Universidad Pública de Navarra)
Scientific Committee
Aires A. Nascimento (University of Lisbon)
Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Hermenegildo Fernandes (University of Lisbon)
Maria João Branco (New University of Lisbon)
José Manuel Díaz de Bustamante (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Fernando López Alsina (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
José Antonio Fernández Flórez (Universidad de Burgos)
José Manuel Ruiz Asencio (Universidad de Valladolid)
Organizing Committee
Paulo Farmhouse Alberto (University of Lisbon)
Marcello Moscone (University of Lisbon)
Rodrigo Furtado (University of Lisbon)
Without dismissing a global overview of this phenomenon, we aim at approaching the topic through specific case studies and by taking into account the different ways in which medieval institutions built their own memory. Therefore, it is also essential to pay attention to non-diplomatic texts copied in or written in close relation to the cartularies (e.g. hagiography or historiography), and to the codices in terms of paleography,
codicology and decoration.
Researchers from different areas of knowledge are invited to present papers on topics focusing on the following themes:
1. Memory, archives and cartularies: models and aims in the organization of corpora.
2. From the archive to the codex: the selection, organization and use / re-use of documents;
3. Cartularies and non-diplomatic texts: hagiography, historiography, annals.
4. Visual Culture: decorations, seals and signa.
5. Analyzing and editing: experiences, projects, databases.
*
The conference will be organized in plenary sessions with keynote speakers and parallel sessions with papers.
• Working languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English, French and Italian.
• Papers presentations: 20 minutes.
The conference will be organized in plenary sessions with keynote speakers and parallel sessions with papers.
• Working languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English, French and Italian.
• Papers presentations: 20 minutes
We welcome:
• individual proposals for a 20-minute paper (ca. 500 words);
• joint proposals for thematic panels consisting of 3 papers (ca. 350 words per paper).
*
Please include the following information with your proposal:
• the full title of your paper / of your panel and respective papers;
• an abstract (ca. 500 words per paper), eventually with a short list of bibliographical references;
• a short bio blurb (ca. 200 words).
*
Please note that:
• All paper proposals will be peer-reviewed;
• Deadline for proposals: February 28, 2015;
• Proposals should be submitted by e-mail in MS Word or PDF format to medievalcartularies@letras.ulisboa.pt, with the subject header: Abstract proposal.
*
Registration
• Registration for paper presentation speakers: 80 Euros (two lunches included).
• Registration without paper presentation (entitled to conference materials and certificate of attendance): 15 Euros.
• Student fee: 10 Euros.
• All speakers are responsible for their own travel arrangements and accommodation; relevant information about hotels will be provided later.
• Accepted speakers should pay the registration fee after notification of acceptance. Deadlines and methods of payment will be given later.
Invited speakers
Ana Suárez González (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Anna Bellettini (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Julio Escalona Monge (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Wendy Davies (University College of London)
José Manuel Díaz de Bustamante (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Fernando López Alsina (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
José Antonio Fernández Flórez (Universidad de Burgos)
José Manuel Ruiz Asencio (Universidad de Valladolid)
Marta Herrero de la Fuente (Universidad de Valladolid)
Miguel Calleja Puerta (Universidad de Oviedo)
Eloísa Ramírez Vaquero (Universidad Pública de Navarra)
Scientific Committee
Aires A. Nascimento (University of Lisbon)
Cristina Jular Pérez-Alfaro (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Hermenegildo Fernandes (University of Lisbon)
Maria João Branco (New University of Lisbon)
José Manuel Díaz de Bustamante (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
Fernando López Alsina (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
José Antonio Fernández Flórez (Universidad de Burgos)
José Manuel Ruiz Asencio (Universidad de Valladolid)
Organizing Committee
Paulo Farmhouse Alberto (University of Lisbon)
Marcello Moscone (University of Lisbon)
Rodrigo Furtado (University of Lisbon)
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This is a call for papers for a conference on the subject of books, practices of writing, reading, copying and studying in the early middle ages. It is organized by the research project ‘Marginal Scholarship: The Practice of Learning in... more
This is a call for papers for a conference on the subject of books, practices of writing, reading, copying and studying in the early middle ages. It is organized by the research project ‘Marginal Scholarship: The Practice of Learning in the Early Middle Ages (c. 800 – c. 1000)’, which seeks to map the phenomenon of writing in the blank space of manuscripts (in the margin, in between the lines, on fly-leaves or inserted leaves) in the early middle ages, in order to gain a better understanding of the way in which books and texts were used in that period. In essence, we aim to understand the intellectual practices of the period as reflected by the manuscripts and to re-evaluate both how traditional the period was, and how innovative. Furthermore, we hope to explore how the developments of the culture of writing in this period led to developments in later periods, and also how they compare to those in other cultures, such as the Byzantine world or the world of Late Antiquity. Confirmed speakers include David Ganz and John Contreni.
The following questions and themes will be addressed in the sessions:
1. Practices of annotating
Who were allowed to make annotations in manuscripts? What can we learn about the hierarchical organization of the writing process in monastic or cathedral environments, and are there ways to say something about the status of scribes and/or scholars working in manuscript margins?
Annotating practices reflect many different functionalities of the appropriation of text: they can, for example, reflect a process of text comparison and textual criticism; they can have the aim to gather information in order to facilitate the composition of a new text; they can offer guidance to the reader, either in the sense of offering explanation or interpretation, or in the sense of warning the reader and delivering criticism; they can engage in a discussion with the author of the text, or with another annotator, or create stepping stones from one text to others, in order to broaden the reading of the text by offering new and different opinions. We would like to discuss these and other functionalities, and replace the mono-dimensional ‘annotated book = school book’ with a richer and more accurate model of interpretation.
2. The profile of annotating practices
Can we see patterns in the relationship between textual genres and the kind of marginal activity encountered in the margin? Were certain textual genres treated differently than others? For example, do theological texts invite other types of critical reflection than scientific texts or historical texts? Are there genres with ‘empty’ margins, and what would be the reason for that?
Can we distinguish sets of annotating practices which are specific to certain intellectual centres or groups of scholars? Can we distinguish individual practices even, which allow us to identify the scholar who worked in the manuscript? It has been argued, for example, that the group around Florus of Lyon had a very particular set of signs to mark patristic texts, in order to prepare florilegia of patristic quotations on certain subjects. Are there other examples of such private practices, and what happened to them after the death of the scholar(s) at their centre?
Some annotating practices are particular to a certain period in history. Tironian notes, for example, seem to have been used in a specific time and space for marginal comments, and are rarely found outside that period. The Nota sign gets company in the shape of a pointing hand at a certain moment in time, is perhaps even replaced by it. Could we mark annotation practices on a chronological scale, just as we can with letter shapes or other physical features of manuscripts?
3. Cultures of writing
Manuscripts, scholars and books travelled, and thus the culture of writing is a dynamic and ever evolving field. Can we map the circles of influence from one scholar, or one school to the next through the eyes of manuscripts? Can we trace specific practices of annotating or writing in general through history, and follow their historical development? And do these practices offer us insight into the intellectual networks of the time? What would be good strategies to map the dynamics of the lives of manuscripts, both in the sense of their actual travels, and in the sense of their changing contents?
A selection of the papers from the conference will be collected in an edited volume, to be published in 2016.
If you are interested in participating in this conference, please send us a title and abstract (ca 400-500 words), your contact information and affiliation to MarginalScholarship@gmail.com. The deadline for sending in abstracts is 15 January 2015. You will hear back from us before 15 February 2015 whether your proposal has been accepted.
The organizers offer to cover your expenses of accommodation. No fee will be asked, lunches will be provided and one conference dinner. For your travel expenses we kindly ask you to rely on the budget of your own university or other academic sponsor. If this is a problem, please indicate this in your correspondence with us.
Mariken Teeuwen, Irene van Renswoude and Evina Steinova: MarginalScholarship@gmail.com
Mariken.Teeuwen@huygens.knaw.nl
Irene.van.Renswoude@huygens.knaw.nl
Evina.Steinova@huygens.knaw.nl
The following questions and themes will be addressed in the sessions:
1. Practices of annotating
Who were allowed to make annotations in manuscripts? What can we learn about the hierarchical organization of the writing process in monastic or cathedral environments, and are there ways to say something about the status of scribes and/or scholars working in manuscript margins?
Annotating practices reflect many different functionalities of the appropriation of text: they can, for example, reflect a process of text comparison and textual criticism; they can have the aim to gather information in order to facilitate the composition of a new text; they can offer guidance to the reader, either in the sense of offering explanation or interpretation, or in the sense of warning the reader and delivering criticism; they can engage in a discussion with the author of the text, or with another annotator, or create stepping stones from one text to others, in order to broaden the reading of the text by offering new and different opinions. We would like to discuss these and other functionalities, and replace the mono-dimensional ‘annotated book = school book’ with a richer and more accurate model of interpretation.
2. The profile of annotating practices
Can we see patterns in the relationship between textual genres and the kind of marginal activity encountered in the margin? Were certain textual genres treated differently than others? For example, do theological texts invite other types of critical reflection than scientific texts or historical texts? Are there genres with ‘empty’ margins, and what would be the reason for that?
Can we distinguish sets of annotating practices which are specific to certain intellectual centres or groups of scholars? Can we distinguish individual practices even, which allow us to identify the scholar who worked in the manuscript? It has been argued, for example, that the group around Florus of Lyon had a very particular set of signs to mark patristic texts, in order to prepare florilegia of patristic quotations on certain subjects. Are there other examples of such private practices, and what happened to them after the death of the scholar(s) at their centre?
Some annotating practices are particular to a certain period in history. Tironian notes, for example, seem to have been used in a specific time and space for marginal comments, and are rarely found outside that period. The Nota sign gets company in the shape of a pointing hand at a certain moment in time, is perhaps even replaced by it. Could we mark annotation practices on a chronological scale, just as we can with letter shapes or other physical features of manuscripts?
3. Cultures of writing
Manuscripts, scholars and books travelled, and thus the culture of writing is a dynamic and ever evolving field. Can we map the circles of influence from one scholar, or one school to the next through the eyes of manuscripts? Can we trace specific practices of annotating or writing in general through history, and follow their historical development? And do these practices offer us insight into the intellectual networks of the time? What would be good strategies to map the dynamics of the lives of manuscripts, both in the sense of their actual travels, and in the sense of their changing contents?
A selection of the papers from the conference will be collected in an edited volume, to be published in 2016.
If you are interested in participating in this conference, please send us a title and abstract (ca 400-500 words), your contact information and affiliation to MarginalScholarship@gmail.com. The deadline for sending in abstracts is 15 January 2015. You will hear back from us before 15 February 2015 whether your proposal has been accepted.
The organizers offer to cover your expenses of accommodation. No fee will be asked, lunches will be provided and one conference dinner. For your travel expenses we kindly ask you to rely on the budget of your own university or other academic sponsor. If this is a problem, please indicate this in your correspondence with us.
Mariken Teeuwen, Irene van Renswoude and Evina Steinova: MarginalScholarship@gmail.com
Mariken.Teeuwen@huygens.knaw.nl
Irene.van.Renswoude@huygens.knaw.nl
Evina.Steinova@huygens.knaw.nl
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Recently, historians have called to broaden our understanding of urban historiography, and to think less in the all too strict categories based on well-studied Italian or German examples of the genre. Indeed, urban identity and historical... more
Recently, historians have called to broaden our understanding of urban historiography, and to think less in the all too strict categories based on well-studied Italian or German examples of the genre. Indeed, urban identity and historical consciousness could very well be shown in other ways and through other channels than a typical urban chronicle.
The present workshop aims at taking the first steps towards a re-evaluation of urban historiography in the Low Countries, including rather than excluding texts that do not fit common definitions as proposed for other urbanised areas. It is the explicit aim to confront examples from the Low Countries to well-studied cases abroad, in order to develop new approaches to urban historiography in general.
The day will consist of keynote lectures, paper presentations and discussion panels and will bring together young researchers and (international) experts working on various aspects of city chronicles.
The present workshop aims at taking the first steps towards a re-evaluation of urban historiography in the Low Countries, including rather than excluding texts that do not fit common definitions as proposed for other urbanised areas. It is the explicit aim to confront examples from the Low Countries to well-studied cases abroad, in order to develop new approaches to urban historiography in general.
The day will consist of keynote lectures, paper presentations and discussion panels and will bring together young researchers and (international) experts working on various aspects of city chronicles.
Research Interests: European History, Modern History, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Urban History, and 14 moreComparative History, Medieval urban history, The Low Countries, History of The Netherlands, Medieval Low Countries, Belgian History, Histoire moderne, Historia Urbana, Late Medieval History, Historia Medieval, History of the Low Countries, Historia Moderna, Histoire Medievale, and Storia Della Città e Del Territorio
Ce séminaire est consacré aux rapports entre histoire et littérature dans toute leur diversité. Nous nous efforçons de proposer des outils, des méthodes, des cas, des situations, des dispositifs, des terrains, pour penser le fait... more
Ce séminaire est consacré aux rapports entre histoire et littérature dans toute leur diversité. Nous nous efforçons de proposer des outils, des méthodes, des cas, des situations, des dispositifs, des terrains, pour penser le fait littéraire comme fait de l'histoire, tout en portant un regard critique sur ses historiographies. La perspective est résolument interdisciplinaire : la marque identitaire du séminaire est de réunir des historiens et des littéraires autour d'objets et de problématiques définis en commun. La chronologie est ouverte et large, entre Renaissance et XXe siècle ; les questionnements élaborés à partir des écrits de l’époque moderne servent aussi à interroger et reconfigurer l’approche d’écrits et de phénomènes plus contemporains. Quelques séances sont réservées à des invités qui déploient leurs objets propres dans le cadre intellectuel des problématiques partagées. En outre, des ateliers de lecture de textes actuels, historiographiques ou théoriques, sont proposés en rapport avec l'avancée ou les incertitudes des travaux en cours.
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Les doctorants de l’ED “Pratiques et théories du Sens” et du centre Jean-Mabillon souhaitent consacrer leur journée d’études 2015 à la mise en valeur de la matérialité des correspondances, souvent étudiées pour leur contenu, peu pour... more
Les doctorants de l’ED “Pratiques et théories du Sens” et du centre Jean-Mabillon souhaitent consacrer leur journée d’études 2015 à la mise en valeur de la matérialité des correspondances, souvent étudiées pour leur contenu, peu pour elles-mêmes. Par une réflexion sur leurs objets comme processus créatif et scripturaire, leurs modes de transport, de fermeture, de chiffrement et d’identification, il s’agira de poser la matérialité des échanges comme un objet d’étude signifiant. L’analyse de ces réseaux d’écriture et de diffusion participe de ce mouvement en donnant à voir les objectifs politiques, spirituels, intellectuels, économiques, etc. qu’ils revêtent.
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Description L’Université Paris-Saclay souhaite promouvoir l’ouverture internationale des formations de master (Diplôme National) dispensées au sein des établissements membres et faciliter ainsi l’accueil d’étudiants internationaux de... more
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L’Université Paris-Saclay souhaite promouvoir l’ouverture internationale des formations de master (Diplôme National) dispensées au sein des établissements membres et faciliter ainsi l’accueil d’étudiants internationaux de haut niveau notamment ceux désirant développer un projet de formation par la recherche jusqu’au niveau doctoral.
Ainsi, 190 bourses d’accueil seront proposées pour l’année universitaire 2015-2016. Elles seront accordées pour 1 ou 2 ans en fonction du niveau d’intégration (M1 ou M2).
L’Université Paris-Saclay souhaite promouvoir l’ouverture internationale des formations de master (Diplôme National) dispensées au sein des établissements membres et faciliter ainsi l’accueil d’étudiants internationaux de haut niveau notamment ceux désirant développer un projet de formation par la recherche jusqu’au niveau doctoral.
Ainsi, 190 bourses d’accueil seront proposées pour l’année universitaire 2015-2016. Elles seront accordées pour 1 ou 2 ans en fonction du niveau d’intégration (M1 ou M2).
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Lunedì 2 marzo 2015, ore 17.00 Il direttore della Biblioteca Simonetta Buttò è lieta di invitare la S.V. alla presentazione del volume «Christi nomine invocato». La Cancelleria della Nunziatura di Savoia e il suo archivio (secc.... more
Lunedì 2 marzo 2015, ore 17.00
Il direttore della Biblioteca Simonetta Buttò è lieta di invitare la S.V. alla presentazione del volume «Christi nomine invocato». La Cancelleria della Nunziatura di Savoia e il suo archivio (secc. XVI-XVIII) di Pier Paolo Piergentili, Archivio Segreto Vaticano, 2014.
Intervengono Vincenzo Lavenia, Maria Antonietta Visceglia. Coordina Alexander Koller
Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea - Palazzo Mattei di Giove Via Michelangelo Caetani 32 - Roma.
Per informazioni: Biblioteca di storia moderna e Contemporanea - b-stmo.info@beniculturali.it - www.bsmc.it -
Il direttore della Biblioteca Simonetta Buttò è lieta di invitare la S.V. alla presentazione del volume «Christi nomine invocato». La Cancelleria della Nunziatura di Savoia e il suo archivio (secc. XVI-XVIII) di Pier Paolo Piergentili, Archivio Segreto Vaticano, 2014.
Intervengono Vincenzo Lavenia, Maria Antonietta Visceglia. Coordina Alexander Koller
Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea - Palazzo Mattei di Giove Via Michelangelo Caetani 32 - Roma.
Per informazioni: Biblioteca di storia moderna e Contemporanea - b-stmo.info@beniculturali.it - www.bsmc.it -
Research Interests: Diplomatic History, Archival Studies, Early Modern History, Archives, History of Archives, and 10 moreEarly Modern Italy, Renaissance Rome, Recordkeeping and Archives, Vatican Archives, Archivos, Papal History, Archivística, Papacy (Early Modern and Modern Church History), Chancery Studies, and Storia moderna
The Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2015 - 'Secret Histories' Friday, 27th February 2015 The Wolfson Conference Suite The Institute of Historical Research, Senate House. Hosted by The Royal Historical Society, The Institute of Historical Research,... more
The Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2015 - 'Secret Histories'
Friday, 27th February 2015
The Wolfson Conference Suite
The Institute of Historical Research, Senate House.
Hosted by The Royal Historical Society, The Institute of Historical Research, The National Archives and The British Library
Friday, 27th February 2015
The Wolfson Conference Suite
The Institute of Historical Research, Senate House.
Hosted by The Royal Historical Society, The Institute of Historical Research, The National Archives and The British Library
Research Interests:
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Institute of Historical Research, European History 1500-1800 seminars, Mondays at 17.15 in IHR, Past and Present Room.
Convenors: Philip Broadhead, Peter Campbell, Joël Félix, Filippo de Vivo, John Henderson, Julian Swann
Convenors: Philip Broadhead, Peter Campbell, Joël Félix, Filippo de Vivo, John Henderson, Julian Swann
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Il grande poeta romanesco Giuseppe Gioachino Belli è stato per vari periodi impiegato nell’amministrazione pontificia e come tale ha svolto vari ruoli in una carriera che sicuramente si può definire tutt'altro che regolare. Ed è... more
Il grande poeta romanesco Giuseppe Gioachino Belli è stato per vari periodi impiegato nell’amministrazione pontificia e come tale ha svolto vari ruoli in una carriera che sicuramente si può definire tutt'altro che regolare.
Ed è proprio questa sua appartenenza al mondo dei dipendenti pubblici che collega Giuseppe Gioachino Belli all’Archivio di Stato di Roma.
Fra la documentazione che questo Istituto ha il compito di conservare, precisamente nell'archivio della Direzione generale del Bollo, registro, Ipoteche e tasse riunite che aveva sede a Roma, c'è il fascicolo personale di Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, che raccoglie la pratica relativa alla sua richiesta di pensione, presentata il 6 novembre 1844.
Grazie a queste carte si può ricostruire la carriera dell' impiegato Belli, dall'anno 1807 all'anno 1845, e ricomporre così il puzzle costituito dal curriculum del Poeta romano, che per mantenersi, a causa dello stato di miseria in cui si ritrovò dopo al morte dei genitori e anche in altri difficili periodi della sua vita, ebbe sempre il miraggio del posto fisso.
E nel Belli impiegato dell’amministrazione pontificia si possono ritrovare tematiche ancora oggi vive nella pubblica amministrazione: quali l'assenteismo, il poco attaccamento al lavoro monotono e mal pagato del dipendente pubblico, vissuto come un obbligo, ma comunque ambito perché fisso. E parallelamente l’emergere di un mondo fatto di personaggi influenti, a cui doversi rivolgersi per ottenere una raccomandazione, indispensabile in quell’epoca per arrivare all’ambito posto fisso.
A tutte le debolezze mostrate nell’organizzazione dei dipendenti pontifici, già in campo nel periodo di Belli, la nuova amministrazione italiana, dopo il 1870, cercherà di porre rimedio. Ma il cammino fu lungo e irto di ostacoli, in parte non ancora superati.
La mostra è a cura di Marina Morena dell’Archivio di Stato di Roma.
Ed è proprio questa sua appartenenza al mondo dei dipendenti pubblici che collega Giuseppe Gioachino Belli all’Archivio di Stato di Roma.
Fra la documentazione che questo Istituto ha il compito di conservare, precisamente nell'archivio della Direzione generale del Bollo, registro, Ipoteche e tasse riunite che aveva sede a Roma, c'è il fascicolo personale di Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, che raccoglie la pratica relativa alla sua richiesta di pensione, presentata il 6 novembre 1844.
Grazie a queste carte si può ricostruire la carriera dell' impiegato Belli, dall'anno 1807 all'anno 1845, e ricomporre così il puzzle costituito dal curriculum del Poeta romano, che per mantenersi, a causa dello stato di miseria in cui si ritrovò dopo al morte dei genitori e anche in altri difficili periodi della sua vita, ebbe sempre il miraggio del posto fisso.
E nel Belli impiegato dell’amministrazione pontificia si possono ritrovare tematiche ancora oggi vive nella pubblica amministrazione: quali l'assenteismo, il poco attaccamento al lavoro monotono e mal pagato del dipendente pubblico, vissuto come un obbligo, ma comunque ambito perché fisso. E parallelamente l’emergere di un mondo fatto di personaggi influenti, a cui doversi rivolgersi per ottenere una raccomandazione, indispensabile in quell’epoca per arrivare all’ambito posto fisso.
A tutte le debolezze mostrate nell’organizzazione dei dipendenti pontifici, già in campo nel periodo di Belli, la nuova amministrazione italiana, dopo il 1870, cercherà di porre rimedio. Ma il cammino fu lungo e irto di ostacoli, in parte non ancora superati.
La mostra è a cura di Marina Morena dell’Archivio di Stato di Roma.
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- D. Stéphane Péquignot École Pratique des Hautes Études, París, 'Archivos y diplomacia en la Baja Edad Media: el caso de la Corona de Aragón' - Dña. Margarita Gómez Gómez, Universidad de Sevilla, 'Representar al poder: funciones del... more
- D. Stéphane Péquignot École Pratique des Hautes Études, París, 'Archivos y diplomacia en la Baja Edad Media: el caso de la Corona de Aragón'
- Dña. Margarita Gómez Gómez, Universidad de Sevilla, 'Representar al poder: funciones del documento y el sello en Indias'
- Dña. Margarita Gómez Gómez, Universidad de Sevilla, 'Representar al poder: funciones del documento y el sello en Indias'
Research Interests: Diplomatic History, Archival Studies, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Medieval Studies, and 22 moreDiplomatic Studies, Archives, History Of Information, History of Archives, Recordkeeping and Archives, Spain (History), Medieval Crown of Aragon, Spain, Ancient Seals and Sealings, Archivos, Historia Medieval, Archivística, HISTORIA DE LAS INDIAS, History of the Crown of Aragon, Chancery Studies, Seals, Corona Aragonese, Medieval Kingdom of Aragon, Recordkeeping and Archiving, Archivo De La Corona De Aragón, Historia De La Corona De Aragón, and Crown of Aragon
The aim of this conference is to foster discussions about seals and status, concentrating on three principal themes: I. Seals and social status II. Seals and institutional status III. The status of seals as objects The famous... more
The aim of this conference is to foster discussions about seals and status, concentrating on three principal themes:
I. Seals and social status
II. Seals and institutional status
III. The status of seals as objects
The famous exchange quoted on the left captures in a few biting words the close and significant connections between seals and status. It evokes the perception that sealing related to social status, that this relationship changed over time, and that such historical developments were both recognized and highly charged. Finally — and perhaps one reason why the Battle anecdote has been so often quoted — these words suggest an important status for seals themselves within the medieval world of objects. If anything, this importance increased with their proliferation: seals eventually belonged to all kinds of people and institutions, and many individuals, corporations, and chanceries had several. Ultimately, seals’ forms and functions came both to articulate and to construct social as well as institutional and administrative hierarchies.
Possible topics for papers include: Seals and heraldry; seals and inequality; seals and villeinage; seals of institutional office; seals and gender; non-heraldic personal seals; seals and status as represented in medieval and early modern texts; corporate seals and the status of institutions; the historiography of seals; the organization of chanceries; the development of sealing practices within and across social groups; relationships of seals to other works of art. Proposals are welcomed from a wide range of perspectives such as: archaeology, history, art history, archival studies, literature.
Submissions will be accepted in English, French, and German and should be no more than 300 words in length. Send to Lloyd de Beer (ldebeer@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk) by 30th January 2015.
The conference will be held at the British Museum from the 4th–6th December 2015. This conference is co-organised with John Cherry and Jessica Berenbeim in collaboration with Sigillvm, a network for the study of medieval European seals and sealing practices.
I. Seals and social status
II. Seals and institutional status
III. The status of seals as objects
The famous exchange quoted on the left captures in a few biting words the close and significant connections between seals and status. It evokes the perception that sealing related to social status, that this relationship changed over time, and that such historical developments were both recognized and highly charged. Finally — and perhaps one reason why the Battle anecdote has been so often quoted — these words suggest an important status for seals themselves within the medieval world of objects. If anything, this importance increased with their proliferation: seals eventually belonged to all kinds of people and institutions, and many individuals, corporations, and chanceries had several. Ultimately, seals’ forms and functions came both to articulate and to construct social as well as institutional and administrative hierarchies.
Possible topics for papers include: Seals and heraldry; seals and inequality; seals and villeinage; seals of institutional office; seals and gender; non-heraldic personal seals; seals and status as represented in medieval and early modern texts; corporate seals and the status of institutions; the historiography of seals; the organization of chanceries; the development of sealing practices within and across social groups; relationships of seals to other works of art. Proposals are welcomed from a wide range of perspectives such as: archaeology, history, art history, archival studies, literature.
Submissions will be accepted in English, French, and German and should be no more than 300 words in length. Send to Lloyd de Beer (ldebeer@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk) by 30th January 2015.
The conference will be held at the British Museum from the 4th–6th December 2015. This conference is co-organised with John Cherry and Jessica Berenbeim in collaboration with Sigillvm, a network for the study of medieval European seals and sealing practices.
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